We call chtls_free_skb() but then we dereference it on the next lines. Also "skb" can't be NULL, we just dereferenced it on the line before. I have moved the free down a couple lines to fix this issue. Fixes: 17a7d24aa89d ("crypto: chtls - generic handling of data and hdr") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c index 51fc6821cbbf..708e232e3cdf 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c @@ -1548,15 +1548,14 @@ static int chtls_pt_recvmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len, tp->urg_data = 0; if ((avail + offset) >= skb->len) { - if (likely(skb)) - chtls_free_skb(sk, skb); - buffers_freed++; if (ULP_SKB_CB(skb)->flags & ULPCB_FLAG_TLS_HDR) { tp->copied_seq += skb->len; hws->rcvpld = skb->hdr_len; } else { tp->copied_seq += hws->rcvpld; } + chtls_free_skb(sk, skb); + buffers_freed++; hws->copied_seq = 0; if (copied >= target && !skb_peek(&sk->sk_receive_queue))