diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c
index 5cff443f6cdb782f4d89cfed6e767bdb24a32e06..0bbb1a41998bc95563813ef8a584e104aad5c462 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c
@@ -674,7 +674,8 @@ xfs_qm_dqattach_one(
 	 * disk and we didn't ask it to allocate;
 	 * ESRCH if quotas got turned off suddenly.
 	 */
-	error = xfs_qm_dqget(ip->i_mount, ip, id, type, XFS_QMOPT_DOWARN, &dqp);
+	error = xfs_qm_dqget(ip->i_mount, ip, id, type,
+			     doalloc | XFS_QMOPT_DOWARN, &dqp);
 	if (error)
 		return error;