diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 6c87c2c6af24..16a60f871f39 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -290,6 +290,10 @@ static inline void set_freepointer(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, void *fp)
 {
 	unsigned long freeptr_addr = (unsigned long)object + s->offset;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
+	BUG_ON(object == fp); /* naive detection of double free or corruption */
+#endif
+
 	*(void **)freeptr_addr = freelist_ptr(s, fp, freeptr_addr);
 }