diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 5898d92ba19f..61ee009717f1 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -5656,9 +5656,11 @@ void ext4_discard_preallocations(struct inode *inode)
  list_for_each_entry_safe(pa, tmp, &list, u.pa_tmp_list) {
  BUG_ON(pa->pa_type != MB_INODE_PA);
  group = ext4_get_group_number(sb, pa->pa_pstart);
+ gfp_t flags = GFP_NOFS;
+ if (!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
+ flags |= __GFP_NOFAIL;