We don't check "frontend" consistently in crypto_init_spawn2(). We check it at the start of the function but then we dereference it unconditionally in the parameter list when we call crypto_init_spawn(). I looked at the places that call crypto_init_spawn2() and "frontend" is always a valid pointer so I removed the check for null. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/crypto/algapi.c b/crypto/algapi.c index 76fae27..c3cf1a6 100644 --- a/crypto/algapi.c +++ b/crypto/algapi.c @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ int crypto_init_spawn2(struct crypto_spawn *spawn, struct crypto_alg *alg, { int err = -EINVAL; - if (frontend && (alg->cra_flags ^ frontend->type) & frontend->maskset) + if ((alg->cra_flags ^ frontend->type) & frontend->maskset) goto out; spawn->frontend = frontend; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html