diff --git a/include/linux/fscache.h b/include/linux/fscache.h
index d984aff..19b4645 100644
--- a/include/linux/fscache.h
+++ b/include/linux/fscache.h
@@ -209,6 +209,8 @@
 					 gfp_t);
 extern void __fscache_uncache_all_inode_pages(struct fscache_cookie *,
 					      struct inode *);
+extern void __fscache_readpages_cancel(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
+				       struct list_head *pages);
 
 /**
  * fscache_register_netfs - Register a filesystem as desiring caching services
@@ -590,6 +592,26 @@
 }
 
 /**
+ * fscache_readpages_cancel - Cancel read/alloc on pages
+ * @cookie: The cookie representing the inode's cache object.
+ * @pages: The netfs pages that we canceled write on in readpages()
+ *
+ * Uncache/unreserve the pages reserved earlier in readpages() via
+ * fscache_readpages_or_alloc() and similar.  In most successful caches in
+ * readpages() this doesn't do anything.  In cases when the underlying netfs's
+ * readahead failed we need to clean up the pagelist (unmark and uncache).
+ *
+ * This function may sleep as it may have to clean up disk state.
+ */
+static inline
+void fscache_readpages_cancel(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
+			      struct list_head *pages)
+{
+	if (fscache_cookie_valid(cookie))
+		__fscache_readpages_cancel(cookie, pages);
+}
+
+/**
  * fscache_write_page - Request storage of a page in the cache
  * @cookie: The cookie representing the cache object
  * @page: The netfs page to store