Hello Cyrille Pitchen, The patch a29af939b24d: "crypto: atmel-sha - update request queue management to make it more generic" from Jan 26, 2017, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/crypto/atmel-sha.c:673 atmel_sha_xmit_dma() error: we previously assumed 'in_desc' could be null (see line 670) drivers/crypto/atmel-sha.c 652 653 dmaengine_slave_config(dd->dma_lch_in.chan, &dd->dma_lch_in.dma_conf); 654 655 if (length2) { 656 sg_init_table(sg, 2); 657 sg_dma_address(&sg[0]) = dma_addr1; 658 sg_dma_len(&sg[0]) = length1; 659 sg_dma_address(&sg[1]) = dma_addr2; 660 sg_dma_len(&sg[1]) = length2; 661 in_desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(dd->dma_lch_in.chan, sg, 2, 662 DMA_MEM_TO_DEV, DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT | DMA_CTRL_ACK); 663 } else { 664 sg_init_table(sg, 1); 665 sg_dma_address(&sg[0]) = dma_addr1; 666 sg_dma_len(&sg[0]) = length1; 667 in_desc = dmaengine_prep_slave_sg(dd->dma_lch_in.chan, sg, 1, 668 DMA_MEM_TO_DEV, DMA_PREP_INTERRUPT | DMA_CTRL_ACK); 669 } 670 if (!in_desc) 671 atmel_sha_complete(dd, -EINVAL); Did you mean return atmel_sha_complete(dd, -EINVAL);??? That patch change a bunch of returns to just call atmel_sha_complete(). Someone should probably review it again to make sure there aren't other bugs as well. 672 673 in_desc->callback = atmel_sha_dma_callback; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NULL dereference. 674 in_desc->callback_param = dd; 675 676 atmel_sha_write_ctrl(dd, 1); 677 regards, dan carpenter