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-rw-r--r--mm/slab_common.c19
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 8e40321da091..1ec3c619ba04 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -233,14 +233,17 @@ out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
put_online_cpus();
- /*
- * There is no point in flooding logs with warnings or especially
- * crashing the system if we fail to create a cache for a memcg. In
- * this case we will be accounting the memcg allocation to the root
- * cgroup until we succeed to create its own cache, but it isn't that
- * critical.
- */
- if (err && !memcg) {
+ if (err) {
+ /*
+ * There is no point in flooding logs with warnings or
+ * especially crashing the system if we fail to create a cache
+ * for a memcg. In this case we will be accounting the memcg
+ * allocation to the root cgroup until we succeed to create its
+ * own cache, but it isn't that critical.
+ */
+ if (!memcg)
+ return NULL;
+
if (flags & SLAB_PANIC)
panic("kmem_cache_create: Failed to create slab '%s'. Error %d\n",
name, err);