diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 2d517c96a586..e272d383a7f7 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 6816966a8418b980481b4dced7eddd1796b145e8
+refs/heads/master: 9db9da332250dbe662995703a4dcdd692112f0c3
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c b/trunk/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
index d3ddd1361949..289bc0f125f9 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
@@ -3516,6 +3516,7 @@ transport_generic_get_mem(struct se_cmd *cmd)
 	u32 length = cmd->data_length;
 	unsigned int nents;
 	struct page *page;
+	gfp_t zero_flag;
 	int i = 0;
 
 	nents = DIV_ROUND_UP(length, PAGE_SIZE);
@@ -3526,9 +3527,11 @@ transport_generic_get_mem(struct se_cmd *cmd)
 	cmd->t_data_nents = nents;
 	sg_init_table(cmd->t_data_sg, nents);
 
+	zero_flag = cmd->se_cmd_flags & SCF_SCSI_DATA_SG_IO_CDB ? 0 : __GFP_ZERO;
+
 	while (length) {
 		u32 page_len = min_t(u32, length, PAGE_SIZE);
-		page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
+		page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | zero_flag);
 		if (!page)
 			goto out;