diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 9529f5f855e9..c0e0424022f8 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 3a2cba993b0a04f258ab75e15cf3f08ada268dbd
+refs/heads/master: bc0055aee40ba40627361d8ffd8530d315920f18
diff --git a/trunk/mm/slob.c b/trunk/mm/slob.c
index 03cce3d3d986..77786be032e0 100644
--- a/trunk/mm/slob.c
+++ b/trunk/mm/slob.c
@@ -298,7 +298,8 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
 		c->align = (flags & SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN) ? SLOB_ALIGN : 0;
 		if (c->align < align)
 			c->align = align;
-	}
+	} else if (flags & SLAB_PANIC)
+		panic("Cannot create slab cache %s\n", name);
 
 	return c;
 }