diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index 5ae0bffaa4d8e2c9a4f10666a0ddea8cb9a35fe1..0d1196d6f786119782e38ee35d9c7c37069dc4cd 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -2681,7 +2681,7 @@ int extent_readpages(struct extent_io_tree *tree,
 		prefetchw(&page->flags);
 		list_del(&page->lru);
 		if (!add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping,
-					page->index, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+					page->index, GFP_NOFS)) {
 			__extent_read_full_page(tree, page, get_extent,
 						&bio, 0, &bio_flags);
 		}