Merge branch 'sh/stable-updates'

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
index ec2f7bd76818..037e878e03fc 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
@@ -159,7 +159,9 @@ void fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, void *data, int data_is, const
                         if (!group->ops->should_send_event(group, to_tell, mask))
                                 continue;
                         if (!event) {
-                                event = fsnotify_create_event(to_tell, mask, data, data_is, file_name, cookie);
+                                event = fsnotify_create_event(to_tell, mask, data,
+                                                              data_is, file_name, cookie,
+                                                              GFP_KERNEL);
                                 /* shit, we OOM'd and now we can't tell, maybe
                                  * someday someone else will want to do something
                                  * here */