On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 04:06:33PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote: > + /* key is used to store the sig and digest too. */ > + key = kmalloc(key_max_len, GFP_KERNEL); > if (!key) > goto error_free_req; Maybe just call this 'buf', as the key is just one of the purposes the buffer is used for now. > + /* Cannot use one scatterlist. The first needs to be s->s_size long. */ > + sg_set_buf(&src_sg[0], key, sig->s_size); > + sg_set_buf(&src_sg[1], key + sig->s_size, sig->digest_size); > akcipher_request_set_crypt(req, src_sg, NULL, sig->s_size, > sig->digest_size); AFAIK, none of the crypto APIs that operate on 'scatterlist' are supposed to care how the data is divided up into scatterlist elements. So it sounds like there is another bug that needs to be fixed. It should be fixed, not worked around. - Eric