diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h
index 628a43242a34..83b9c39bd8b7 100644
--- a/include/linux/oom.h
+++ b/include/linux/oom.h
@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ static inline bool oom_task_origin(const struct task_struct *p)
 
 extern void mark_oom_victim(struct task_struct *tsk);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+extern void try_oom_reaper(struct task_struct *tsk);
+#else
+static inline void try_oom_reaper(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 extern unsigned long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p,
 		struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const nodemask_t *nodemask,
 		unsigned long totalpages);
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 1b40dcad2b90..d71d387868e6 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1275,6 +1275,7 @@ static bool mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	 */
 	if (fatal_signal_pending(current) || task_will_free_mem(current)) {
 		mark_oom_victim(current);
+		try_oom_reaper(current);
 		goto unlock;
 	}
 
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 32d8210b8773..850b6ff66bdf 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -412,6 +412,25 @@ bool oom_killer_disabled __read_mostly;
 
 #define K(x) ((x) << (PAGE_SHIFT-10))
 
+/*
+ * task->mm can be NULL if the task is the exited group leader.  So to
+ * determine whether the task is using a particular mm, we examine all the
+ * task's threads: if one of those is using this mm then this task was also
+ * using it.
+ */
+static bool process_shares_mm(struct task_struct *p, struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	struct task_struct *t;
+
+	for_each_thread(p, t) {
+		struct mm_struct *t_mm = READ_ONCE(t->mm);
+		if (t_mm)
+			return t_mm == mm;
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 /*
  * OOM Reaper kernel thread which tries to reap the memory used by the OOM
@@ -563,6 +582,53 @@ static void wake_oom_reaper(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	wake_up(&oom_reaper_wait);
 }
 
+/* Check if we can reap the given task. This has to be called with stable
+ * tsk->mm
+ */
+void try_oom_reaper(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->mm;
+	struct task_struct *p;
+
+	if (!mm)
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * There might be other threads/processes which are either not
+	 * dying or even not killable.
+	 */
+	if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) {
+		rcu_read_lock();
+		for_each_process(p) {
+			bool exiting;
+
+			if (!process_shares_mm(p, mm))
+				continue;
+			if (same_thread_group(p, tsk))
+				continue;
+			if (fatal_signal_pending(p))
+				continue;
+
+			/*
+			 * If the task is exiting make sure the whole thread group
+			 * is exiting and cannot acces mm anymore.
+			 */
+			spin_lock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
+			exiting = signal_group_exit(p->signal);
+			spin_unlock_irq(&p->sighand->siglock);
+			if (exiting)
+				continue;
+
+			/* Give up */
+			rcu_read_unlock();
+			return;
+		}
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+	}
+
+	wake_oom_reaper(tsk);
+}
+
 static int __init oom_init(void)
 {
 	oom_reaper_th = kthread_run(oom_reaper, NULL, "oom_reaper");
@@ -652,24 +718,6 @@ void oom_killer_enable(void)
 	oom_killer_disabled = false;
 }
 
-/*
- * task->mm can be NULL if the task is the exited group leader.  So to
- * determine whether the task is using a particular mm, we examine all the
- * task's threads: if one of those is using this mm then this task was also
- * using it.
- */
-static bool process_shares_mm(struct task_struct *p, struct mm_struct *mm)
-{
-	struct task_struct *t;
-
-	for_each_thread(p, t) {
-		struct mm_struct *t_mm = READ_ONCE(t->mm);
-		if (t_mm)
-			return t_mm == mm;
-	}
-	return false;
-}
-
 /*
  * Must be called while holding a reference to p, which will be released upon
  * returning.
@@ -694,6 +742,7 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p,
 	task_lock(p);
 	if (p->mm && task_will_free_mem(p)) {
 		mark_oom_victim(p);
+		try_oom_reaper(p);
 		task_unlock(p);
 		put_task_struct(p);
 		return;
@@ -873,6 +922,7 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
 	if (current->mm &&
 	    (fatal_signal_pending(current) || task_will_free_mem(current))) {
 		mark_oom_victim(current);
+		try_oom_reaper(current);
 		return true;
 	}