diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a0e5ec0addd2..6847177dc4a1 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4060,17 +4060,6 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	unsigned int cpuset_mems_cookie;
 	int reserve_flags;
 
-	/*
-	 * In the slowpath, we sanity check order to avoid ever trying to
-	 * reclaim >= MAX_ORDER areas which will never succeed. Callers may
-	 * be using allocators in order of preference for an area that is
-	 * too large.
-	 */
-	if (order >= MAX_ORDER) {
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN));
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * We also sanity check to catch abuse of atomic reserves being used by
 	 * callers that are not in atomic context.
@@ -4364,6 +4353,15 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int preferred_nid,
 	gfp_t alloc_mask; /* The gfp_t that was actually used for allocation */
 	struct alloc_context ac = { };
 
+	/*
+	 * There are several places where we assume that the order value is sane
+	 * so bail out early if the request is out of bound.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER)) {
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN));
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	gfp_mask &= gfp_allowed_mask;
 	alloc_mask = gfp_mask;
 	if (!prepare_alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order, preferred_nid, nodemask, &ac, &alloc_mask, &alloc_flags))