diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 8ed93510e50e..d1bebd197c8c 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2847,6 +2847,8 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 	 * more permissive.
 	 */
 	if (!order) {
+		gfp_t bulk_gfp = gfp & ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
+
 		while (nr_allocated < nr_pages) {
 			unsigned int nr, nr_pages_request;
 
@@ -2864,12 +2866,12 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 			 * but mempolcy want to alloc memory by interleaving.
 			 */
 			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) && nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
-				nr = alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy(gfp,
+				nr = alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy(bulk_gfp,
 							nr_pages_request,
 							pages + nr_allocated);
 
 			else
-				nr = alloc_pages_bulk_array_node(gfp, nid,
+				nr = alloc_pages_bulk_array_node(bulk_gfp, nid,
 							nr_pages_request,
 							pages + nr_allocated);
 
@@ -2924,6 +2926,7 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 {
 	const gfp_t nested_gfp = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) | __GFP_ZERO;
 	const gfp_t orig_gfp_mask = gfp_mask;
+	bool nofail = gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL;
 	unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)area->addr;
 	unsigned long size = get_vm_area_size(area);
 	unsigned long array_size;
@@ -2988,8 +2991,12 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	else if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS | __GFP_IO)) == 0)
 		flags = memalloc_noio_save();
 
-	ret = vmap_pages_range(addr, addr + size, prot, area->pages,
+	do {
+		ret = vmap_pages_range(addr, addr + size, prot, area->pages,
 			page_shift);
+		if (nofail && (ret < 0))
+			schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
+	} while (nofail && (ret < 0));
 
 	if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS | __GFP_IO)) == __GFP_IO)
 		memalloc_nofs_restore(flags);
@@ -3084,9 +3091,14 @@ again:
 				  VM_UNINITIALIZED | vm_flags, start, end, node,
 				  gfp_mask, caller);
 	if (!area) {
+		bool nofail = gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL;
 		warn_alloc(gfp_mask, NULL,
-			"vmalloc error: size %lu, vm_struct allocation failed",
-			real_size);
+			"vmalloc error: size %lu, vm_struct allocation failed%s",
+			real_size, (nofail) ? ". Retrying." : "");
+		if (nofail) {
+			schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
+			goto again;
+		}
 		goto fail;
 	}