--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ again: * inode has not been flagged as nocompress. This flag can * change at any time if we discover bad compression ratios. */ - if (inode_need_compress(BTRFS_I(inode), start, end)) { + if (nr_pages > 1 && inode_need_compress(BTRFS_I(inode), start, end)) { WARN_ON(pages); pages = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS); if (!pages) {