diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index b54f2c20e5e0..44f5fa98c1e7 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static __always_inline void kasan_poison_element(mempool_t *pool, void *element)
 		kasan_free_pages(element, (unsigned long)pool->pool_data);
 }
 
-static void kasan_unpoison_element(mempool_t *pool, void *element, gfp_t flags)
+static void kasan_unpoison_element(mempool_t *pool, void *element)
 {
 	if (pool->alloc == mempool_alloc_slab || pool->alloc == mempool_kmalloc)
 		kasan_unpoison_slab(element);
@@ -127,12 +127,12 @@ static __always_inline void add_element(mempool_t *pool, void *element)
 	pool->elements[pool->curr_nr++] = element;
 }
 
-static void *remove_element(mempool_t *pool, gfp_t flags)
+static void *remove_element(mempool_t *pool)
 {
 	void *element = pool->elements[--pool->curr_nr];
 
 	BUG_ON(pool->curr_nr < 0);
-	kasan_unpoison_element(pool, element, flags);
+	kasan_unpoison_element(pool, element);
 	check_element(pool, element);
 	return element;
 }
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static void *remove_element(mempool_t *pool, gfp_t flags)
 void mempool_exit(mempool_t *pool)
 {
 	while (pool->curr_nr) {
-		void *element = remove_element(pool, GFP_KERNEL);
+		void *element = remove_element(pool);
 		pool->free(element, pool->pool_data);
 	}
 	kfree(pool->elements);
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ int mempool_resize(mempool_t *pool, int new_min_nr)
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
 	if (new_min_nr <= pool->min_nr) {
 		while (new_min_nr < pool->curr_nr) {
-			element = remove_element(pool, GFP_KERNEL);
+			element = remove_element(pool);
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
 			pool->free(element, pool->pool_data);
 			spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ repeat_alloc:
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
 	if (likely(pool->curr_nr)) {
-		element = remove_element(pool, gfp_temp);
+		element = remove_element(pool);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
 		/* paired with rmb in mempool_free(), read comment there */
 		smp_wmb();