Small allocations may fail during slab bringup which is fatal. Add a BUG_ON() so that we fail immediately rather than failing later during sysfs processing. CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2010-07-06 15:12:14.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2010-07-06 15:13:48.000000000 -0500 @@ -3118,9 +3118,12 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void) slab_state = UP; /* Provide the correct kmalloc names now that the caches are up */ - for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i < SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT; i++) - kmalloc_caches[i]. name = - kasprintf(GFP_NOWAIT, "kmalloc-%d", 1 << i); + for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i < SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT; i++) { + char *s = kasprintf(GFP_NOWAIT, "kmalloc-%d", 1 << i); + + BUG_ON(!s); + kmalloc_caches[i].name = s; + } #ifdef CONFIG_SMP register_cpu_notifier(&slab_notifier); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>