diff --git a/Include/weakrefobject.h b/Include/weakrefobject.h
index 17051568f3..3133cab1e7 100644
--- a/Include/weakrefobject.h
+++ b/Include/weakrefobject.h
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ struct _PyWeakReference {
     /* A callable to invoke when wr_object dies, or NULL if none. */
     PyObject *wr_callback;
 
+    /* True if the weak reference was found to be trash by GC, wr_callback
+     * will not be called in that case. */
+    int wr_trash;
+
     /* A cache for wr_object's hash code.  As usual for hashes, this is -1
      * if the hash code isn't known yet.
      */
diff --git a/Modules/gcmodule.c b/Modules/gcmodule.c
index 0cf00e8396..9d85a5be83 100644
--- a/Modules/gcmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/gcmodule.c
@@ -676,6 +690,10 @@ handle_weakrefs(PyGC_Head *unreachable, PyGC_Head *old)
         op = FROM_GC(gc);
         next = GC_NEXT(gc);
 
+        if (PyWeakref_Check(op)) {
+            ((PyWeakReference *)op)->wr_trash = 1;
+        }
+
         if (! PyType_SUPPORTS_WEAKREFS(Py_TYPE(op)))
             continue;
 
diff --git a/Objects/weakrefobject.c b/Objects/weakrefobject.c
index 8b8e71031a..7914ae50a1 100644
--- a/Objects/weakrefobject.c
+++ b/Objects/weakrefobject.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ static void
 init_weakref(PyWeakReference *self, PyObject *ob, PyObject *callback)
 {
     self->hash = -1;
+    self->wr_trash = 0;
     self->wr_object = ob;
     self->wr_prev = NULL;
     self->wr_next = NULL;
@@ -874,6 +875,9 @@ PyWeakref_GetObject(PyObject *ref)
 static void
 handle_callback(PyWeakReference *ref, PyObject *callback)
 {
+    if (ref->wr_trash) {
+        return; /* weakref is trash, suppress callback */
+    }
     PyObject *cbresult = PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(callback, ref, NULL);
 
     if (cbresult == NULL)