diff --git a/fs/f2fs/dir.c b/fs/f2fs/dir.c
index 96dcc4aca639..456651682daf 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/dir.c
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 #include "xattr.h"
 #include <trace/events/f2fs.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_UNICODE
+extern struct kmem_cache *f2fs_cf_name_slab;
+#endif
+
 static unsigned long dir_blocks(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	return ((unsigned long long) (i_size_read(inode) + PAGE_SIZE - 1))
@@ -77,11 +81,10 @@ int f2fs_init_casefolded_name(const struct inode *dir,
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_UNICODE
 	struct super_block *sb = dir->i_sb;
-	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_SB(sb);
 
 	if (IS_CASEFOLDED(dir)) {
-		fname->cf_name.name = f2fs_kmalloc(sbi, F2FS_NAME_LEN,
-						   GFP_NOFS);
+		fname->cf_name.name = kmem_cache_alloc(f2fs_cf_name_slab,
+								GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!fname->cf_name.name)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		fname->cf_name.len = utf8_casefold(sb->s_encoding,
@@ -89,7 +92,7 @@ int f2fs_init_casefolded_name(const struct inode *dir,
 						   fname->cf_name.name,
 						   F2FS_NAME_LEN);
 		if ((int)fname->cf_name.len <= 0) {
-			kfree(fname->cf_name.name);
+			kmem_cache_free(f2fs_cf_name_slab, fname->cf_name.name);
 			fname->cf_name.name = NULL;
 			if (sb_has_strict_encoding(sb))
 				return -EINVAL;
@@ -172,8 +175,10 @@ void f2fs_free_filename(struct f2fs_filename *fname)
 	fname->crypto_buf.name = NULL;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_UNICODE
-	kfree(fname->cf_name.name);
-	fname->cf_name.name = NULL;
+	if (fname->cf_name.name) {
+		kmem_cache_free(f2fs_cf_name_slab, fname->cf_name.name);
+		fname->cf_name.name = NULL;
+	}
 #endif
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
index 4b2f7d1d5bf4..695eacfe776c 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
 
 static struct kmem_cache *fsync_entry_slab;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_UNICODE
+extern struct kmem_cache *f2fs_cf_name_slab;
+#endif
+
 bool f2fs_space_for_roll_forward(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 {
 	s64 nalloc = percpu_counter_sum_positive(&sbi->alloc_valid_block_count);
@@ -145,7 +149,7 @@ static int init_recovered_filename(const struct inode *dir,
 		f2fs_hash_filename(dir, fname);
 #ifdef CONFIG_UNICODE
 		/* Case-sensitive match is fine for recovery */
-		kfree(fname->cf_name.name);
+		kmem_cache_free(f2fs_cf_name_slab, fname->cf_name.name);
 		fname->cf_name.name = NULL;
 #endif
 	} else {
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index d70122da3f99..289cdda3d17b 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -277,6 +277,24 @@ static int f2fs_sb_read_encoding(const struct f2fs_super_block *sb,
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+struct kmem_cache *f2fs_cf_name_slab;
+static int __init f2fs_create_casefold_cache(void)
+{
+	f2fs_cf_name_slab = f2fs_kmem_cache_create("f2fs_casefolded_name",
+							F2FS_NAME_LEN);
+	if (!f2fs_cf_name_slab)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void f2fs_destroy_casefold_cache(void)
+{
+	kmem_cache_destroy(f2fs_cf_name_slab);
+}
+#else
+static int __init f2fs_create_casefold_cache(void) { return 0; }
+static void f2fs_destroy_casefold_cache(void) { }
 #endif
 
 static inline void limit_reserve_root(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
@@ -4319,7 +4337,12 @@ static int __init init_f2fs_fs(void)
 	err = f2fs_init_compress_cache();
 	if (err)
 		goto free_compress_mempool;
+	err = f2fs_create_casefold_cache();
+	if (err)
+		goto free_compress_cache;
 	return 0;
+free_compress_cache:
+	f2fs_destroy_compress_cache();
 free_compress_mempool:
 	f2fs_destroy_compress_mempool();
 free_bioset:
@@ -4355,6 +4378,7 @@ static int __init init_f2fs_fs(void)
 
 static void __exit exit_f2fs_fs(void)
 {
+	f2fs_destroy_casefold_cache();
 	f2fs_destroy_compress_cache();
 	f2fs_destroy_compress_mempool();
 	f2fs_destroy_bioset();