diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index 68cdd89c97a3..7c0bd0b55f88 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -692,6 +692,34 @@ void dup_userfaultfd_complete(struct list_head *fcs)
 	}
 }
 
+void dup_userfaultfd_fail(struct list_head *fcs)
+{
+	struct userfaultfd_fork_ctx *fctx, *n;
+
+	/*
+	 * An error has occurred on fork, we will tear memory down, but have
+	 * allocated memory for fctx's and raised reference counts for both the
+	 * original and child contexts (and on the mm for each as a result).
+	 *
+	 * These would ordinarily be taken care of by a user handling the event,
+	 * but we are no longer doing so, so manually clean up here.
+	 *
+	 * mm tear down will take care of cleaning up VMA contexts.
+	 */
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(fctx, n, fcs, list) {
+		struct userfaultfd_ctx *octx = fctx->orig;
+		struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx = fctx->new;
+
+		atomic_dec(&octx->mmap_changing);
+		VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&octx->mmap_changing) < 0);
+		userfaultfd_ctx_put(octx);
+		userfaultfd_ctx_put(ctx);
+
+		list_del(&fctx->list);
+		kfree(fctx);
+	}
+}
+
 void mremap_userfaultfd_prep(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			     struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx *vm_ctx)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
index 9fc6ce15c499..cb40f1a1d081 100644
--- a/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
+++ b/include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ static inline bool vma_can_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 extern int dup_userfaultfd(struct vm_area_struct *, struct list_head *);
 extern void dup_userfaultfd_complete(struct list_head *);
+void dup_userfaultfd_fail(struct list_head *);
 
 extern void mremap_userfaultfd_prep(struct vm_area_struct *,
 				    struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx *);
@@ -351,6 +352,10 @@ static inline void dup_userfaultfd_complete(struct list_head *l)
 {
 }
 
+static inline void dup_userfaultfd_fail(struct list_head *l)
+{
+}
+
 static inline void mremap_userfaultfd_prep(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 					   struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx *ctx)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 89ceb4a68af2..597b477dd491 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -775,7 +775,10 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	mmap_write_unlock(mm);
 	flush_tlb_mm(oldmm);
 	mmap_write_unlock(oldmm);
-	dup_userfaultfd_complete(&uf);
+	if (!retval)
+		dup_userfaultfd_complete(&uf);
+	else
+		dup_userfaultfd_fail(&uf);
 fail_uprobe_end:
 	uprobe_end_dup_mmap();
 	return retval;