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>
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