diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 9ce303d..6be9275 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -31,6 +31,41 @@
 
 #define list_to_page(head) (list_entry((head)->prev, struct page, lru))
 
+/*
+ * see if a page needs releasing upon read_cache_pages() failure
+ * - the caller of read_cache_pages() may have set PG_private before calling,
+ *   such as the NFS fs marking pages that are cached locally on disk, thus we
+ *   need to give the fs a chance to clean up in the event of an error
+ */
+static void read_cache_pages_invalidate_page(struct address_space *mapping,
+					     struct page *page)
+{
+	if (PagePrivate(page)) {
+		if (!trylock_page(page))
+			BUG();
+		page->mapping = mapping;
+		do_invalidatepage(page, 0);
+		page->mapping = NULL;
+		unlock_page(page);
+	}
+	page_cache_release(page);
+}
+
+/*
+ * release a list of pages, invalidating them first if need be
+ */
+static void read_cache_pages_invalidate_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
+					      struct list_head *pages)
+{
+	struct page *victim;
+
+	while (!list_empty(pages)) {
+		victim = list_to_page(pages);
+		list_del(&victim->lru);
+		read_cache_pages_invalidate_page(mapping, victim);
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * read_cache_pages - populate an address space with some pages & start reads against them
  * @mapping: the address_space
@@ -52,14 +87,14 @@
 		list_del(&page->lru);
 		if (add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping,
 					page->index, GFP_KERNEL)) {
-			page_cache_release(page);
+			read_cache_pages_invalidate_page(mapping, page);
 			continue;
 		}
 		page_cache_release(page);
 
 		ret = filler(data, page);
 		if (unlikely(ret)) {
-			put_pages_list(pages);
+			read_cache_pages_invalidate_pages(mapping, pages);
 			break;
 		}
 		task_io_account_read(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);