diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index bc54e3c32257..10ea95cce605 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: f8b58edf3acf0dcc186b8330939000ecf709368a
+refs/heads/master: 082cf69eb82681f4eacb3a5653834c7970714bef
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/trunk/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index 234fdcfbdf01..6c98cf042714 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -1912,6 +1912,15 @@ static struct request *get_request(request_queue_t *q, int rw, struct bio *bio,
 	}
 
 get_rq:
+	/*
+	 * Only allow batching queuers to allocate up to 50% over the defined
+	 * limit of requests, otherwise we could have thousands of requests
+	 * allocated with any setting of ->nr_requests
+	 */
+	if (rl->count[rw] >= (3 * q->nr_requests / 2)) {
+		spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+		goto out;
+	}
 	rl->count[rw]++;
 	rl->starved[rw] = 0;
 	if (rl->count[rw] >= queue_congestion_on_threshold(q))