diff --git a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
index 4dabeb893b7c18cced67230fd8fbcc36c677983b..df9932b00d08fdc666f63c84014fbd08889cf624 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ BTRFS_WORK_HELPER(scrubwrc_helper);
 BTRFS_WORK_HELPER(scrubnc_helper);
 
 static struct __btrfs_workqueue *
-__btrfs_alloc_workqueue(const char *name, int flags, int max_active,
+__btrfs_alloc_workqueue(const char *name, unsigned int flags, int max_active,
 			 int thresh)
 {
 	struct __btrfs_workqueue *ret = kzalloc(sizeof(*ret), GFP_NOFS);
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static inline void
 __btrfs_destroy_workqueue(struct __btrfs_workqueue *wq);
 
 struct btrfs_workqueue *btrfs_alloc_workqueue(const char *name,
-					      int flags,
+					      unsigned int flags,
 					      int max_active,
 					      int thresh)
 {
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
index e386c29ef1f62c559a184e4ae31884c2bcc425ba..ec2ee477f8ba003ee7af4030da1b976891073dcf 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.h
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ BTRFS_WORK_HELPER_PROTO(scrubwrc_helper);
 BTRFS_WORK_HELPER_PROTO(scrubnc_helper);
 
 struct btrfs_workqueue *btrfs_alloc_workqueue(const char *name,
-					      int flags,
+					      unsigned int flags,
 					      int max_active,
 					      int thresh);
 void btrfs_init_work(struct btrfs_work *work, btrfs_work_func_t helper,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index c7546d6512cc5d1e5ed0cfccdf81f6b84d25db50..29cb50b4981e476d32c5c4df1f26783690673fbc 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@ static int btrfs_init_workqueues(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 		struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices)
 {
 	int max_active = fs_info->thread_pool_size;
-	int flags = WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_UNBOUND;
+	unsigned int flags = WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_UNBOUND;
 
 	fs_info->workers =
 		btrfs_alloc_workqueue("worker", flags | WQ_HIGHPRI,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/scrub.c b/fs/btrfs/scrub.c
index db21f17df9965ff023393ada20e84b090f1d15e3..4af5f49a310594dd37b6b920010afac3755cc78f 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/scrub.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/scrub.c
@@ -3561,7 +3561,7 @@ static noinline_for_stack int scrub_workers_get(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 						int is_dev_replace)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
-	int flags = WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_UNBOUND;
+	unsigned int flags = WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_UNBOUND;
 	int max_active = fs_info->thread_pool_size;
 
 	if (fs_info->scrub_workers_refcnt == 0) {