diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 7e25ee3ce6e5..2bb90b1d241c 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -904,6 +904,14 @@ static void *vb_alloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 
 	BUG_ON(size & ~PAGE_MASK);
 	BUG_ON(size > PAGE_SIZE*VMAP_MAX_ALLOC);
+	if (WARN_ON(size == 0)) {
+		/*
+		 * Allocating 0 bytes isn't what caller wants since
+		 * get_order(0) returns funny result. Just warn and terminate
+		 * early.
+		 */
+		return NULL;
+	}
 	order = get_order(size);
 
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