diff --git a/fs/ext2/balloc.c b/fs/ext2/balloc.c
index e124f3d709b2..1bfd6ab11038 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/balloc.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ void ext2_init_block_alloc_info(struct inode *inode)
 	struct ext2_block_alloc_info *block_i;
 	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
 
-	block_i = kmalloc(sizeof(*block_i), GFP_NOFS);
+	block_i = kmalloc(sizeof(*block_i), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (block_i) {
 		struct ext2_reserve_window_node *rsv = &block_i->rsv_window_node;
 
diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index 5a4272b2c6b0..f3d570a9302b 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ static int ext2_get_blocks(struct inode *inode,
 		 */
 		err = sb_issue_zeroout(inode->i_sb,
 				le32_to_cpu(chain[depth-1].key), count,
-				GFP_NOFS);
+				GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (err) {
 			mutex_unlock(&ei->truncate_mutex);
 			goto cleanup;
diff --git a/fs/ext2/xattr.c b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
index e849241ebb8f..c885dcc3bd0d 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ ext2_xattr_cache_insert(struct mb_cache *cache, struct buffer_head *bh)
 	__u32 hash = le32_to_cpu(HDR(bh)->h_hash);
 	int error;