From: Akinobu Mita The return value of crypto_alloc_blkcipher() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Cc: Mike Halcrow Cc: Phillip Hellewell Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c~ecryptfs-fix-crypto_alloc_blkcipher-error-check fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c --- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c~ecryptfs-fix-crypto_alloc_blkcipher-error-check +++ a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c @@ -820,7 +820,8 @@ int ecryptfs_init_crypt_ctx(struct ecryp crypt_stat->tfm = crypto_alloc_blkcipher(full_alg_name, 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC); kfree(full_alg_name); - if (!crypt_stat->tfm) { + if (IS_ERR(crypt_stat->tfm)) { + rc = PTR_ERR(crypt_stat->tfm); ecryptfs_printk(KERN_ERR, "cryptfs: init_crypt_ctx(): " "Error initializing cipher [%s]\n", crypt_stat->cipher); _