diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.c
index af284baa6f4cb9de8fc5fb7b5b550d90a89ea1d0..4dd52b15f09c64b00a8834d71a275f5ec6d0ab94 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.c
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ xchk_agfl(
 		goto out;
 	}
 	sai.entries = kvcalloc(sai.agflcount, sizeof(xfs_agblock_t),
-			GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
+			       XCHK_GFP_FLAGS);
 	if (!sai.entries) {
 		error = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/attr.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/attr.c
index b6f0c9f3f1245ef9dd5a6e68755e65ea689847f0..11b2593a2be792d7afa9206d9dda27b5f8701142 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/attr.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/attr.c
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ xchk_setup_xattr(
 	 * without the inode lock held, which means we can sleep.
 	 */
 	if (sc->flags & XCHK_TRY_HARDER) {
-		error = xchk_setup_xattr_buf(sc, XATTR_SIZE_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
+		error = xchk_setup_xattr_buf(sc, XATTR_SIZE_MAX,
+				XCHK_GFP_FLAGS);
 		if (error)
 			return error;
 	}
@@ -138,8 +139,7 @@ xchk_xattr_listent(
 	 * doesn't work, we overload the seen_enough variable to convey
 	 * the error message back to the main scrub function.
 	 */
-	error = xchk_setup_xattr_buf(sx->sc, valuelen,
-			GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
+	error = xchk_setup_xattr_buf(sx->sc, valuelen, XCHK_GFP_FLAGS);
 	if (error == -ENOMEM)
 		error = -EDEADLOCK;
 	if (error) {
@@ -324,8 +324,7 @@ xchk_xattr_block(
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Allocate memory for block usage checking. */
-	error = xchk_setup_xattr_buf(ds->sc, 0,
-			GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
+	error = xchk_setup_xattr_buf(ds->sc, 0, XCHK_GFP_FLAGS);
 	if (error == -ENOMEM)
 		return -EDEADLOCK;
 	if (error)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/scrub.h b/fs/xfs/scrub/scrub.h
index 151567f88366588a870612a5df90a6ccffd436d7..a0f097b8acb0a2f970abe5fd5a239d91b03e20a1 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/scrub.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/scrub.h
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@
 
 struct xfs_scrub;
 
+/*
+ * Standard flags for allocating memory within scrub.  NOFS context is
+ * configured by the process allocation scope.  Scrub and repair must be able
+ * to back out gracefully if there isn't enough memory.  Force-cast to avoid
+ * complaints from static checkers.
+ */
+#define XCHK_GFP_FLAGS	((__force gfp_t)(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | \
+					 __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL))
+
 /* Type info and names for the scrub types. */
 enum xchk_type {
 	ST_NONE = 1,	/* disabled */
diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink.c
index 75311f8daeeb8245cc052e67ed55dab3fda850d8..c1c99ffe7408ab54d22f44f91baeac66223a9538 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/symlink.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ xchk_setup_symlink(
 	struct xfs_scrub	*sc)
 {
 	/* Allocate the buffer without the inode lock held. */
-	sc->buf = kvzalloc(XFS_SYMLINK_MAXLEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	sc->buf = kvzalloc(XFS_SYMLINK_MAXLEN + 1, XCHK_GFP_FLAGS);
 	if (!sc->buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;