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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 0bd4d82ddff..3da85b81dab 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1350,6 +1350,10 @@ nofail_alloc:
if (page)
goto got_pg;
+ /* The OOM killer will not help higher order allocs so fail */
+ if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
+ goto nopage;
+
out_of_memory(zonelist, gfp_mask, order);
goto restart;
}