diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
index aaa6e1e..eededf9 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
@@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@
 	if (!(ubi_chk_flags & UBI_CHK_IO))
 		return 0;
 
-	buf1 = __vmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS, PAGE_KERNEL);
+	buf1 = __vmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS, PAGE_KERNEL);
 	if (!buf1) {
 		ubi_err("cannot allocate memory to check writes");
 		return 0;
@@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@
 	if (!(ubi_chk_flags & UBI_CHK_IO))
 		return 0;
 
-	buf = __vmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS, PAGE_KERNEL);
+	buf = __vmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS, PAGE_KERNEL);
 	if (!buf) {
 		ubi_err("cannot allocate memory to check for 0xFFs");
 		return 0;