Fix up non-NUMA SLAB configuration for zero-sized allocations

I suspect Christoph tested his code only in the NUMA configuration, for
the combination of SLAB+non-NUMA the zero-sized kmalloc's would not work.

Of course, this would only trigger in configurations where those zero-
sized allocations happen (not very common), so that may explain why it
wasn't more widely noticed.

Seen by by Andi Kleen under qemu, and there seems to be a report by
Michael Tsirkin on it too.

Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Roland Dreier <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 88bc6336ce3d3662c897b61a8ca25e33744e31a5..c3feeaab387537ef00aa2085b4f54f6d7e4abca0 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3690,8 +3690,8 @@ static __always_inline void *__do_kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags,
         * functions.
         */
        cachep = __find_general_cachep(size, flags);
-       if (unlikely(cachep == NULL))
-               return NULL;
+       if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(cachep)))
+               return cachep;
        return __cache_alloc(cachep, flags, caller);
 }