commit 7e24c849df30a5d2b0bb89165b933ea2faa747bd Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 7 12:43:20 2008 +0200 [HIFN]: Handle ablkcipher_walk errors ablkcipher_walk may return a negative error value, handle this properly instead of treating it as a huge number of scatter-gather elements. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c b/drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c index cce6e6f..4e89cd8 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c @@ -1602,7 +1602,10 @@ static int hifn_setup_session(struct ablkcipher_request *req) idx = 0; sg_num = ablkcipher_walk(req, &ctx->walk); - + if (sg_num < 0) { + err = sg_num; + goto err_out_exit; + } atomic_set(&ctx->sg_num, sg_num); spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->lock, flags);