The crypto_alloc_aead() function doesn't return NULL pointers, it returns error pointers. Fix the error checking. Fixes: 06af76b46c78 ("crypto: spacc - Add SPAcc aead support") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/dwc-spacc/spacc_aead.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/crypto/dwc-spacc/spacc_aead.c b/drivers/crypto/dwc-spacc/spacc_aead.c index 50ef9053fc4d..da9df329f9d4 100755 --- a/drivers/crypto/dwc-spacc/spacc_aead.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/dwc-spacc/spacc_aead.c @@ -784,9 +784,9 @@ static int spacc_aead_fallback(struct aead_request *req, ctx->fb.aead = crypto_alloc_aead(aead_name, 0, CRYPTO_ALG_NEED_FALLBACK | CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC); - if (!ctx->fb.aead) { + if (IS_ERR(ctx->fb.aead)) { pr_err("Spacc aead fallback tfm is NULL!\n"); - return -EINVAL; + return PTR_ERR(ctx->fb.aead); } subreq = aead_request_alloc(ctx->fb.aead, GFP_KERNEL); -- 2.43.0