diff --git a/virt/kvm/async_pf.c b/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
index 35315992245600..db2dd3335c6a6d 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/async_pf.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ int kvm_setup_async_pf(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva, unsigned long hva,
 	 * do alloc nowait since if we are going to sleep anyway we
 	 * may as well sleep faulting in page
 	 */
-	work = kmem_cache_zalloc(async_pf_cache, GFP_NOWAIT);
+	work = kmem_cache_zalloc(async_pf_cache, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
 	if (!work)
 		return 0;