diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 2b7cd24d4cdaf815b28628204767026fef6a4fe8..06a595fd6400496b6ebe39e537f188bd84ecbccb 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3637,6 +3637,34 @@ __memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup **_memcg, int order)
 	int ret;
 
 	*_memcg = NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Disabling accounting is only relevant for some specific memcg
+	 * internal allocations. Therefore we would initially not have such
+	 * check here, since direct calls to the page allocator that are marked
+	 * with GFP_KMEMCG only happen outside memcg core. We are mostly
+	 * concerned with cache allocations, and by having this test at
+	 * memcg_kmem_get_cache, we are already able to relay the allocation to
+	 * the root cache and bypass the memcg cache altogether.
+	 *
+	 * There is one exception, though: the SLUB allocator does not create
+	 * large order caches, but rather service large kmallocs directly from
+	 * the page allocator. Therefore, the following sequence when backed by
+	 * the SLUB allocator:
+	 *
+	 * 	memcg_stop_kmem_account();
+	 * 	kmalloc(<large_number>)
+	 * 	memcg_resume_kmem_account();
+	 *
+	 * would effectively ignore the fact that we should skip accounting,
+	 * since it will drive us directly to this function without passing
+	 * through the cache selector memcg_kmem_get_cache. Such large
+	 * allocations are extremely rare but can happen, for instance, for the
+	 * cache arrays. We bring this test here.
+	 */
+	if (!current->mm || current->memcg_kmem_skip_account)
+		return true;
+
 	memcg = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(current->mm);
 
 	/*