tree 7280b6114b6d794e306c7039b1dcd92852b8de01
parent 75e8f8b24cb0dc4951267d31f0a49e5ce2f345c4
author Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> 1441749650 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1441751728 -0700

mm/slab_common: allow NULL cache pointer in kmem_cache_destroy()

kmem_cache_destroy() does not tolerate a NULL kmem_cache pointer argument
and performs a NULL-pointer dereference.  This requires additional
attention and effort from developers/reviewers and forces all
kmem_cache_destroy() callers (200+ as of 4.1) to do a NULL check

    if (cache)
        kmem_cache_destroy(cache);

Or, otherwise, be invalid kmem_cache_destroy() users.

Tweak kmem_cache_destroy() and NULL-check the pointer there.

Proposed by Andrew Morton.

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/8/583
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>