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>

mm/slub.c

@@ -3325,6 +3325,9 @@ 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) {