If rctx->hw_context allocation of the context pointer failed. Returning -ENOMEM and assigning NULL to the out pointer should improve the robustness of the function. Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c b/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c index d33006d43f76..18e79f62be96 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c @@ -970,6 +970,10 @@ static int stm32_hash_export(struct ahash_request *req, void *out) rctx->hw_context = kmalloc_array(3 + HASH_CSR_REGISTER_NUMBER, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL); + if (rctx->hw_context == NULL) { + out = NULL; + return -ENOMEM; + } preg = rctx->hw_context; -- 2.18.2