diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index 214856c4ccb12c..117b43367629e4 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
 #include <linux/bio.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
@@ -6484,8 +6485,17 @@ static struct btrfs_device *add_missing_dev(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices,
 					    u64 devid, u8 *dev_uuid)
 {
 	struct btrfs_device *device;
+	unsigned int nofs_flag;
 
+	/*
+	 * We call this under the chunk_mutex, so we want to use NOFS for this
+	 * allocation, however we don't want to change btrfs_alloc_device() to
+	 * always do NOFS because we use it in a lot of other GFP_KERNEL safe
+	 * places.
+	 */
+	nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save();
 	device = btrfs_alloc_device(NULL, &devid, dev_uuid);
+	memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag);
 	if (IS_ERR(device))
 		return device;