diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index 9afa25b52a83..a5ec42868f99 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
 
 /**
  * sg_next - return the next scatterlist entry in a list
@@ -115,17 +116,29 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_init_one);
  */
 static struct scatterlist *sg_kmalloc(unsigned int nents, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
-	if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC)
-		return (struct scatterlist *) __get_free_page(gfp_mask);
-	else
+	if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC) {
+		/*
+		 * Kmemleak doesn't track page allocations as they are not
+		 * commonly used (in a raw form) for kernel data structures.
+		 * As we chain together a list of pages and then a normal
+		 * kmalloc (tracked by kmemleak), in order to for that last
+		 * allocation not to become decoupled (and thus a
+		 * false-positive) we need to inform kmemleak of all the
+		 * intermediate allocations.
+		 */
+		void *ptr = (void *) __get_free_page(gfp_mask);
+		kmemleak_alloc(ptr, PAGE_SIZE, 1, gfp_mask);
+		return ptr;
+	} else
 		return kmalloc(nents * sizeof(struct scatterlist), gfp_mask);
 }
 
 static void sg_kfree(struct scatterlist *sg, unsigned int nents)
 {
-	if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC)
+	if (nents == SG_MAX_SINGLE_ALLOC) {
+		kmemleak_free(sg);
 		free_page((unsigned long) sg);
-	else
+	} else
 		kfree(sg);
 }