mm: kmem_cache_create(): make it easier to catch NULL cache names

Right now, if you inadvertently pass NULL to kmem_cache_create() at boot
time, it crashes much later after boot somewhere deep inside sysfs which
makes it very non obvious to figure out what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 0a216aae227e8b3ca7daa5ab8140a2a804784181..4996fc7195528ba931dda8c042da44b2501b083e 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3345,6 +3345,9 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
 {
        struct kmem_cache *s;
 
+       if (WARN_ON(!name))
+               return NULL;
+
        down_write(&slub_lock);
        s = find_mergeable(size, align, flags, name, ctor);
        if (s) {