Evgeniy's hifn driver and probably mine don't use ablkcipher->queue at all. The show method of ablkcipher will access this field without checking if it is valid. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Index: b/crypto/ablkcipher.c =================================================================== --- a/crypto/ablkcipher.c +++ b/crypto/ablkcipher.c @@ -91,8 +91,10 @@ static void crypto_ablkcipher_show(struc seq_printf(m, "min keysize : %u\n", ablkcipher->min_keysize); seq_printf(m, "max keysize : %u\n", ablkcipher->max_keysize); seq_printf(m, "ivsize : %u\n", ablkcipher->ivsize); - seq_printf(m, "qlen : %u\n", ablkcipher->queue->qlen); - seq_printf(m, "max qlen : %u\n", ablkcipher->queue->max_qlen); + if (ablkcipher->queue) { + seq_printf(m, "qlen : %u\n", ablkcipher->queue->qlen); + seq_printf(m, "max qlen : %u\n", ablkcipher->queue->max_qlen); + } } const struct crypto_type crypto_ablkcipher_type = { - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html