On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 12:08:04PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > all but one crypto driver ignore the return code of > crypto_engine_exit(). This is ok as this function is called in > situations (remove callback, or error path of probe) where errors cannot > be handled anyhow. This series adapts the only driver that doesn't > ignore the error code (and removes the bogous try to handle it) and then > changes crypto_engine_exit() to return void to prevent similar silly > tries in the future. > > Note however there is still something to fix: If crypto_engine_stop() > fails in crypto_engine_exit() the kworker stays around but *engine will > be freed. So if something triggers the worker afterwards, this results > in an oops (or memory corruption if the freed memory is reused already). > This needs adaptions in the core, specific device drivers are unaffected > by this, so changing crypto_engine_exit() to return void is a step in > the right direction for this fix, too. > > Best regards > Uwe > > Uwe Kleine-König (2): > crypto: keembay - Don't pass errors to the caller in .remove() > crypto: Make crypto_engine_exit() return void > > crypto/crypto_engine.c | 8 ++------ > drivers/crypto/intel/keembay/keembay-ocs-hcu-core.c | 11 +++-------- > include/crypto/engine.h | 2 +- > 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) > > base-commit: 940fcc189c51032dd0282cbee4497542c982ac59 > -- > 2.40.1 All applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt