diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
index d24025626310..5c0ae912f2f2 100644
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c
+++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -374,7 +374,8 @@ static void mqueue_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	struct user_struct *user;
 	unsigned long mq_bytes, mq_treesize;
 	struct ipc_namespace *ipc_ns;
-	struct msg_msg *msg;
+	struct msg_msg *msg, *nmsg;
+	LIST_HEAD(tmp_msg);
 
 	clear_inode(inode);
 
@@ -385,10 +386,15 @@ static void mqueue_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	info = MQUEUE_I(inode);
 	spin_lock(&info->lock);
 	while ((msg = msg_get(info)) != NULL)
-		free_msg(msg);
+		list_add_tail(&msg->m_list, &tmp_msg);
 	kfree(info->node_cache);
 	spin_unlock(&info->lock);
 
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(msg, nmsg, &tmp_msg, m_list) {
+		list_del(&msg->m_list);
+		free_msg(msg);
+	}
+
 	/* Total amount of bytes accounted for the mqueue */
 	mq_treesize = info->attr.mq_maxmsg * sizeof(struct msg_msg) +
 		min_t(unsigned int, info->attr.mq_maxmsg, MQ_PRIO_MAX) *
diff --git a/ipc/msgutil.c b/ipc/msgutil.c
index 84598025a6ad..e65593742e2b 100644
--- a/ipc/msgutil.c
+++ b/ipc/msgutil.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/utsname.h>
 #include <linux/proc_ns.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 
 #include "util.h"
 
@@ -64,6 +65,9 @@ static struct msg_msg *alloc_msg(size_t len)
 	pseg = &msg->next;
 	while (len > 0) {
 		struct msg_msgseg *seg;
+
+		cond_resched();
+
 		alen = min(len, DATALEN_SEG);
 		seg = kmalloc(sizeof(*seg) + alen, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
 		if (seg == NULL)
@@ -176,6 +180,8 @@ void free_msg(struct msg_msg *msg)
 	kfree(msg);
 	while (seg != NULL) {
 		struct msg_msgseg *tmp = seg->next;
+
+		cond_resched();
 		kfree(seg);
 		seg = tmp;
 	}