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slab, kmemleak: stop calling kmemleak_erase() unconditionally

When the gotten object is NULL (probably due to ENOMEM), kmemleak_erase() is
unnecessary here, It just sets NULL to where already is NULL.  Add a condition.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
J. R. Okajima 15 years ago
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      mm/slab.c

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mm/slab.c

@@ -3109,7 +3109,8 @@ static inline void *____cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
 	 * per-CPU caches is leaked, we need to make sure kmemleak doesn't
 	 * treat the array pointers as a reference to the object.
 	 */
-	kmemleak_erase(&ac->entry[ac->avail]);
+	if (objp)
+		kmemleak_erase(&ac->entry[ac->avail]);
 	return objp;
 }