This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: qat - check return code of qat_hal_rd_rel_reg() to the 5.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: crypto-qat-check-return-code-of-qat_hal_rd_rel_reg.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ab867e1b339338d5a591a923c62af77d40d59eb6 Author: Jack Xu <jack.xu@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon May 17 05:13:15 2021 -0400 crypto: qat - check return code of qat_hal_rd_rel_reg() [ Upstream commit 96b57229209490c8bca4335b01a426a96173dc56 ] Check the return code of the function qat_hal_rd_rel_reg() and return it to the caller. This is to fix the following warning when compiling the driver with clang scan-build: drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_hal.c:1436:2: warning: 6th function call argument is an uninitialized value Signed-off-by: Jack Xu <jack.xu@xxxxxxxxx> Co-developed-by: Zhehui Xiang <zhehui.xiang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhehui Xiang <zhehui.xiang@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_hal.c b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_hal.c index bd3028126cbe..069f51621f0e 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_hal.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_hal.c @@ -1417,7 +1417,11 @@ static int qat_hal_put_rel_wr_xfer(struct icp_qat_fw_loader_handle *handle, pr_err("QAT: bad xfrAddr=0x%x\n", xfr_addr); return -EINVAL; } - qat_hal_rd_rel_reg(handle, ae, ctx, ICP_GPB_REL, gprnum, &gprval); + status = qat_hal_rd_rel_reg(handle, ae, ctx, ICP_GPB_REL, gprnum, &gprval); + if (status) { + pr_err("QAT: failed to read register"); + return status; + } gpr_addr = qat_hal_get_reg_addr(ICP_GPB_REL, gprnum); data16low = 0xffff & data; data16hi = 0xffff & (data >> 0x10);