diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index bfd2273cb4b4..b6ddfe22c5d5 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2424,11 +2424,7 @@ static inline int remap_p4d_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/*
- * Variant of remap_pfn_range that does not call track_pfn_remap.  The caller
- * must have pre-validated the caching bits of the pgprot_t.
- */
-int remap_pfn_range_notrack(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+static int remap_pfn_range_internal(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 		unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size, pgprot_t prot)
 {
 	pgd_t *pgd;
@@ -2481,6 +2477,27 @@ int remap_pfn_range_notrack(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Variant of remap_pfn_range that does not call track_pfn_remap.  The caller
+ * must have pre-validated the caching bits of the pgprot_t.
+ */
+int remap_pfn_range_notrack(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+		unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size, pgprot_t prot)
+{
+	int error = remap_pfn_range_internal(vma, addr, pfn, size, prot);
+
+	if (!error)
+		return 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * A partial pfn range mapping is dangerous: it does not
+	 * maintain page reference counts, and callers may free
+	 * pages due to the error. So zap it early.
+	 */
+	zap_page_range_single(vma, addr, size, NULL);
+	return error;
+}
+
 /**
  * remap_pfn_range - remap kernel memory to userspace
  * @vma: user vma to map to