diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index ea87f4d2f455..1614be20173d 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -314,17 +314,29 @@ get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared, union futex_key *key, int rw)
 #endif
 
 	lock_page(page_head);
+
+	/*
+	 * If page_head->mapping is NULL, then it cannot be a PageAnon
+	 * page; but it might be the ZERO_PAGE or in the gate area or
+	 * in a special mapping (all cases which we are happy to fail);
+	 * or it may have been a good file page when get_user_pages_fast
+	 * found it, but truncated or holepunched or subjected to
+	 * invalidate_complete_page2 before we got the page lock (also
+	 * cases which we are happy to fail).  And we hold a reference,
+	 * so refcount care in invalidate_complete_page's remove_mapping
+	 * prevents drop_caches from setting mapping to NULL beneath us.
+	 *
+	 * The case we do have to guard against is when memory pressure made
+	 * shmem_writepage move it from filecache to swapcache beneath us:
+	 * an unlikely race, but we do need to retry for page_head->mapping.
+	 */
 	if (!page_head->mapping) {
+		int shmem_swizzled = PageSwapCache(page_head);
 		unlock_page(page_head);
 		put_page(page_head);
-		/*
-		* ZERO_PAGE pages don't have a mapping. Avoid a busy loop
-		* trying to find one. RW mapping would have COW'd (and thus
-		* have a mapping) so this page is RO and won't ever change.
-		*/
-		if ((page_head == ZERO_PAGE(address)))
-			return -EFAULT;
-		goto again;
+		if (shmem_swizzled)
+			goto again;
+		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
 	/*