[PATCH] crypto/qat: fix docsis segmentation fault

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Tue Jun 28 09:31:18 CEST 2022


On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 6:45 PM Rebecca Troy <rebecca.troy at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Currently if AES or DES algorithms fail for Docsis test suite,
> a segmentation fault occurs when cryptodev_qat_autotest is ran.
>
> This is due to a duplicate call of EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free for the
> session context. Ctx is freed firstly in the bpi_cipher_ctx_init
> function and then again at the end of qat_sym_session_configure_cipher
> function.
>
> This commit fixes this bug by removing the first instance
> of EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free, leaving just the dedicated function in
> the upper level to free the ctx.

This is awkward.
This helper should let *ctx alone until everything succeeded.

-- 
David Marchand



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