diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 80943c123c3e..64f83c4aee99 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -624,6 +624,26 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(del_gendisk);
 
+/**
+ * invalidate_disk - invalidate the disk
+ * @disk: the struct gendisk to invalidate
+ *
+ * A helper to invalidates the disk. It will clean the disk's associated
+ * buffer/page caches and reset its internal states so that the disk
+ * can be reused by the drivers.
+ *
+ * Context: can sleep
+ */
+void invalidate_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
+{
+	struct block_device *bdev = disk->part0;
+
+	invalidate_bdev(bdev);
+	bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping->wb_err = 0;
+	set_capacity(disk, 0);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(invalidate_disk);
+
 /* sysfs access to bad-blocks list. */
 static ssize_t disk_badblocks_show(struct device *dev,
 					struct device_attribute *attr,
diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h
index c70bc5fce4db..13f313ab99e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/genhd.h
+++ b/include/linux/genhd.h
@@ -213,6 +213,8 @@ static inline int add_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
 }
 extern void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *gp);
 
+void invalidate_disk(struct gendisk *disk);
+
 void set_disk_ro(struct gendisk *disk, bool read_only);
 
 static inline int get_disk_ro(struct gendisk *disk)