Another fairly bug in there (this time in drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_io.c): /* Read TLS header to find content type and data length */ static int tls_header_read(struct tls_hdr *thdr, struct iov_iter *from) { if (copy_from_iter(thdr, sizeof(*thdr), from) != sizeof(*thdr)) return -EFAULT; return (__force int)cpu_to_be16(thdr->length); } For one thing, that kind of force-casts is pretty much always wrong. This one clearly says "should've used be16_to_cpu()". And that includes annotating tls_hdr ->length as __be16; no idea about the other field in there (->version, that is). For another, the only caller is recordsz = tls_header_read(&hdr, &msg->msg_iter); size -= TLS_HEADER_LENGTH; copied += TLS_HEADER_LENGTH; csk->tlshws.txleft = recordsz; csk->tlshws.type = hdr.type; if (skb) ULP_SKB_CB(skb)->ulp.tls.type = hdr.type; which doesn't look like something that'll work if you get -EFAULT out of that function. If anything, that smells like we want recordsz = tls_header_read(&hdr, &msg->msg_iter); if (recordsz < 0) goto do_fault; ... What's more, we do *not* want a header that has faulted halfway through to be consumed. IOW, we want copy_from_iter_full(): static int tls_header_read(struct tls_hdr *thdr, struct iov_iter *from) { if (!copy_from_iter_full(thdr, sizeof(*thdr), from)) return -EFAULT; return be16_to_cpu(thdr->length); } in addition to that missing check in the caller...