diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 3deeb886f6e6f76ffe18a1893eed724f5e588639..49590d590d7dbeaa857a89221f26c274956af6fd 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -981,7 +981,8 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
 	struct page *page;
 	struct buffer_head *bh;
 
-	page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index, GFP_NOFS);
+	page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index,
+		mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS);
 	if (!page)
 		return NULL;