diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 7176b6a754cf4fe068d18aa1d926cbe06872b250..c7b48b4282d9b4cbb99c50e005f1081b8cf7666e 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
 	 * make sure exclude 0 mask - all other users should have at least
 	 * ___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM to get here.
 	 */
-	if (oc->gfp_mask && !(oc->gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOFAIL)))
+	if (oc->gfp_mask && !(oc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
 		return true;
 
 	/*
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index dd36da6ffef5802600bb012eb45ad4e0934a6a06..1e37740837ac92821ecbd6fe220b2f6eca151e6c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3090,32 +3090,31 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	if (page)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) {
-		/* Coredumps can quickly deplete all memory reserves */
-		if (current->flags & PF_DUMPCORE)
-			goto out;
-		/* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */
-		if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
-			goto out;
-		/* The OOM killer does not needlessly kill tasks for lowmem */
-		if (ac->high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL)
-			goto out;
-		if (pm_suspended_storage())
-			goto out;
-		/*
-		 * XXX: GFP_NOFS allocations should rather fail than rely on
-		 * other request to make a forward progress.
-		 * We are in an unfortunate situation where out_of_memory cannot
-		 * do much for this context but let's try it to at least get
-		 * access to memory reserved if the current task is killed (see
-		 * out_of_memory). Once filesystems are ready to handle allocation
-		 * failures more gracefully we should just bail out here.
-		 */
+	/* Coredumps can quickly deplete all memory reserves */
+	if (current->flags & PF_DUMPCORE)
+		goto out;
+	/* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs */
+	if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
+		goto out;
+	/* The OOM killer does not needlessly kill tasks for lowmem */
+	if (ac->high_zoneidx < ZONE_NORMAL)
+		goto out;
+	if (pm_suspended_storage())
+		goto out;
+	/*
+	 * XXX: GFP_NOFS allocations should rather fail than rely on
+	 * other request to make a forward progress.
+	 * We are in an unfortunate situation where out_of_memory cannot
+	 * do much for this context but let's try it to at least get
+	 * access to memory reserved if the current task is killed (see
+	 * out_of_memory). Once filesystems are ready to handle allocation
+	 * failures more gracefully we should just bail out here.
+	 */
+
+	/* The OOM killer may not free memory on a specific node */
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE)
+		goto out;
 
-		/* The OOM killer may not free memory on a specific node */
-		if (gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE)
-			goto out;
-	}
 	/* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
 	if (out_of_memory(&oc) || WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) {
 		*did_some_progress = 1;