On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 11:16 +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > Following crash happens, if crc algorithm couldn't be allocated: > > [ 1087.989072] rdma_rxe: loaded > [ 1097.855397] PCLMULQDQ-NI instructions are not detected. > [ 1097.901220] rdma_rxe: failed to allocate crc algorithmi err:-2 > [ 1097.901248] BUG: unable to handle kernel > [ 1097.901249] NULL pointer dereference > [ 1097.901250] at 0000000000000046 > [...] > > Reason is that rxe->tfm is assigned the error return, which will then > be used for crypto_free_shash() in rxe_cleanup. Fix by using a > temporary variable and assigning it rxe->tfm after allocation succeeded. > > Fixes: cee2688e3cd6 ("IB/rxe: Offload CRC calculation when possible") > Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer Thanks, applied. -- Doug Ledford GPG KeyID: B826A3330E572FDD Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD