diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index 753afbca549f..8be1da1ebd9a 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -5255,8 +5255,16 @@ static struct cgroup *cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent)
 	 * if the parent has to be frozen, the child has too.
 	 */
 	cgrp->freezer.e_freeze = parent->freezer.e_freeze;
-	if (cgrp->freezer.e_freeze)
+	if (cgrp->freezer.e_freeze) {
+		/*
+		 * Set the CGRP_FREEZE flag, so when a process will be
+		 * attached to the child cgroup, it will become frozen.
+		 * At this point the new cgroup is unpopulated, so we can
+		 * consider it frozen immediately.
+		 */
+		set_bit(CGRP_FREEZE, &cgrp->flags);
 		set_bit(CGRP_FROZEN, &cgrp->flags);
+	}
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&css_set_lock);
 	for (tcgrp = cgrp; tcgrp; tcgrp = cgroup_parent(tcgrp)) {