diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
index b64768625d82..6d466c77630f 100644
--- a/mm/cma.c
+++ b/mm/cma.c
@@ -438,6 +438,9 @@ struct page *__cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, unsigned long count,
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 	int num_attempts = 0;
 	int max_retries = 5;
+	const char *name = cma ? cma->name : NULL;
+
+	trace_cma_alloc_start(name, count, align);
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_mask & GFP_KERNEL) == 0 ||
 		(gfp_mask & ~(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY)) != 0))
@@ -452,8 +455,6 @@ struct page *__cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, unsigned long count,
 	if (!count)
 		goto out;
 
-	trace_cma_alloc_start(cma->name, count, align);
-
 	mask = cma_bitmap_aligned_mask(cma, align);
 	offset = cma_bitmap_aligned_offset(cma, align);
 	bitmap_maxno = cma_bitmap_maxno(cma);
@@ -522,8 +523,6 @@ struct page *__cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, unsigned long count,
 		start = bitmap_no + mask + 1;
 	}
 
-	trace_cma_alloc_finish(cma->name, pfn, page, count, align);
-
 	/*
 	 * CMA can allocate multiple page blocks, which results in different
 	 * blocks being marked with different tags. Reset the tags to ignore
@@ -542,6 +541,7 @@ struct page *__cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, unsigned long count,
 
 	pr_debug("%s(): returned %p\n", __func__, page);
 out:
+	trace_cma_alloc_finish(name, pfn, page, count, align);
 	if (page) {
 		count_vm_event(CMA_ALLOC_SUCCESS);
 		cma_sysfs_account_success_pages(cma, count);