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-rw-r--r--mm/slab_common.c17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 40b582a014b8..dea2b05c0e3f 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -88,6 +88,19 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_size);
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+
+static bool kmem_cache_is_duplicate_name(const char *name)
+{
+ struct kmem_cache *s;
+
+ list_for_each_entry(s, &slab_caches, list) {
+ if (!strcmp(s->name, name))
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ return false;
+}
+
static int kmem_cache_sanity_check(const char *name, unsigned int size)
{
if (!name || in_interrupt() || size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE) {
@@ -95,6 +108,10 @@ static int kmem_cache_sanity_check(const char *name, unsigned int size)
return -EINVAL;
}
+ /* Duplicate names will confuse slabtop, et al */
+ WARN(kmem_cache_is_duplicate_name(name),
+ "kmem_cache of name '%s' already exists\n", name);
+
WARN_ON(strchr(name, ' ')); /* It confuses parsers */
return 0;
}