diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index c8c2b7d8b8d6..4cc679d5bf58 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 #include <linux/mpage.h>
 #include <linux/bit_spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/pagevec.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
 #include <trace/events/block.h>
 
 static int fsync_buffers_list(spinlock_t *lock, struct list_head *list);
@@ -813,12 +814,16 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_page_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long size,
 		bool retry)
 {
 	struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
-	gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOFS;
+	gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOFS | __GFP_ACCOUNT;
 	long offset;
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 
 	if (retry)
 		gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
 
+	memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_page(page);
+	memalloc_use_memcg(memcg);
+
 	head = NULL;
 	offset = PAGE_SIZE;
 	while ((offset -= size) >= 0) {
@@ -835,6 +840,9 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_page_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long size,
 		/* Link the buffer to its page */
 		set_bh_page(bh, page, offset);
 	}
+out:
+	memalloc_unuse_memcg();
+	mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
 	return head;
 /*
  * In case anything failed, we just free everything we got.
@@ -848,7 +856,7 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_page_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long size,
 		} while (head);
 	}
 
-	return NULL;
+	goto out;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_page_buffers);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 121e218d2a21..50e3e807b427 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -375,6 +375,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p);
 
 struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
 
+struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page);
+
 static inline
 struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css){
 	return css ? container_of(css, struct mem_cgroup, css) : NULL;
@@ -863,6 +865,11 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 static inline void mem_cgroup_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 }
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index bf9cf738c836..c071af193986 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -713,6 +713,28 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mem_cgroup_from_mm);
 
+/**
+ * get_mem_cgroup_from_page: Obtain a reference on given page's memcg.
+ * @page: page from which memcg should be extracted.
+ *
+ * Obtain a reference on page->memcg and returns it if successful. Otherwise
+ * root_mem_cgroup is returned.
+ */
+struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = page->mem_cgroup;
+
+	if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
+		return NULL;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	if (!memcg || !css_tryget_online(&memcg->css))
+		memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+	return memcg;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mem_cgroup_from_page);
+
 /**
  * If current->active_memcg is non-NULL, do not fallback to current->mm->memcg.
  */