diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 7abfa70cdc1ae8767fd663d905372447a7fe6864..40e29429e7b0995bd5799bd6263b18d6ce8261cb 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2373,7 +2373,8 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 			goto out;
 	}
 	/* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
-	if (out_of_memory(ac->zonelist, gfp_mask, order, ac->nodemask, false))
+	if (out_of_memory(ac->zonelist, gfp_mask, order, ac->nodemask, false)
+			|| WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
 		*did_some_progress = 1;
 out:
 	oom_zonelist_unlock(ac->zonelist, gfp_mask);