issue, but triggering it requires a memory allocation failure in ghash_setkey _after_ at least one successful call to ghash_update. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000670 IP: [] gf128mul_4k_lle+0x23/0x60 [gf128mul] *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: ghash_generic gf128mul algif_hash af_alg nfs lockd nfs_acl sunrpc bridge ipv6 stp llc Pid: 1502, comm: hashatron Tainted: G W 3.1.0-rc9-00085-ge9308cf #32 Bochs Bochs EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00000202 CPU: 0 EIP is at gf128mul_4k_lle+0x23/0x60 [gf128mul] EAX: d69db1f0 EBX: d6b8ddac ECX: 00000004 EDX: 00000000 ESI: 00000670 EDI: d6b8ddac EBP: d6b8ddc8 ESP: d6b8dda4 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Process hashatron (pid: 1502, ti=d6b8c000 task=d6810000 task.ti=d6b8c000) Stack: 00000000 d69db1f0 00000163 00000000 d6b8ddc8 c101a520 d69db1f0 d52aa000 00000ff0 d6b8dde8 d88d310f d6b8a3f8 d52aa000 00001000 d88d502c d6b8ddfc 00001000 d6b8ddf4 c11676ed d69db1e8 d6b8de24 c11679ad d52aa000 00000000 Call Trace: [] ? kmap_atomic_prot+0x37/0xa6 [] ghash_update+0x85/0xbe [ghash_generic] [] crypto_shash_update+0x18/0x1b [] shash_ahash_update+0x22/0x36 [] shash_async_update+0xb/0xd [] hash_sendpage+0xba/0xf2 [algif_hash] [] kernel_sendpage+0x39/0x4e [] ? 0xd88cdfff [] sock_sendpage+0x37/0x3e [] ? kernel_sendpage+0x4e/0x4e [] pipe_to_sendpage+0x56/0x61 [] splice_from_pipe_feed+0x58/0xcd [] ? splice_from_pipe_begin+0x10/0x10 [] __splice_from_pipe+0x36/0x55 [] ? splice_from_pipe_begin+0x10/0x10 [] splice_from_pipe+0x51/0x64 [] ? default_file_splice_write+0x2c/0x2c [] generic_splice_sendpage+0x13/0x15 [] ? splice_from_pipe_begin+0x10/0x10 [] do_splice_from+0x5d/0x67 [] sys_splice+0x2bf/0x363 [] ? sysenter_exit+0xf/0x16 [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10e/0x13f [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32 Code: 83 c4 0c 5b 5e 5f c9 c3 55 b9 04 00 00 00 89 e5 57 8d 7d e4 56 53 8d 5d e4 83 ec 18 89 45 e0 89 55 dc 0f b6 70 0f c1 e6 04 01 d6 a5 be 0f 00 00 00 4e 89 d8 e8 48 ff ff ff 8b 45 e0 89 da 0f EIP: [] gf128mul_4k_lle+0x23/0x60 [gf128mul] SS:ESP 0068:d6b8dda4 CR2: 0000000000000670 ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da24 ]--- note: hashatron[1502] exited with preempt_count 1 BUG: scheduling while atomic: hashatron/1502/0x10000002 INFO: lockdep is turned off. [...] Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.37+] Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Ò#5µ”