diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index 6ca0d9cc46f9..6104676857f5 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -555,12 +555,14 @@ static struct btrfs_fs_devices *clone_fs_devices(struct btrfs_fs_devices *orig)
 		 * This is ok to do without rcu read locked because we hold the
 		 * uuid mutex so nothing we touch in here is going to disappear.
 		 */
-		name = rcu_string_strdup(orig_dev->name->str, GFP_NOFS);
-		if (!name) {
-			kfree(device);
-			goto error;
+		if (orig_dev->name) {
+			name = rcu_string_strdup(orig_dev->name->str, GFP_NOFS);
+			if (!name) {
+				kfree(device);
+				goto error;
+			}
+			rcu_assign_pointer(device->name, name);
 		}
-		rcu_assign_pointer(device->name, name);
 
 		list_add(&device->dev_list, &fs_devices->devices);
 		device->fs_devices = fs_devices;