Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: caam: Add check for kcalloc() in test_len()

From: kernel test robot

Date: Tue Sep 23 2025 - 06:56:29 EST


Hi Guangshuo,

kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:

[auto build test ERROR on herbert-cryptodev-2.6/master]
[also build test ERROR on herbert-crypto-2.6/master linus/master v6.17-rc7 next-20250922]
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url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Guangshuo-Li/crypto-caam-Add-check-for-kcalloc-in-test_len/20250922-235723
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/cryptodev-2.6.git master
patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250922155322.1825714-1-lgs201920130244%40gmail.com
patch subject: [PATCH v2] crypto: caam: Add check for kcalloc() in test_len()
config: m68k-allmodconfig (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250923/202509231807.ZFBBKMM4-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: m68k-linux-gcc (GCC) 15.1.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250923/202509231807.ZFBBKMM4-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202509231807.ZFBBKMM4-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

drivers/crypto/caam/caamrng.c: In function 'test_len':
>> drivers/crypto/caam/caamrng.c:186:24: error: 'return' with a value, in function returning void [-Wreturn-mismatch]
186 | return -ENOMEM;
| ^
drivers/crypto/caam/caamrng.c:176:20: note: declared here
176 | static inline void test_len(struct hwrng *rng, size_t len, bool wait)
| ^~~~~~~~


vim +/return +186 drivers/crypto/caam/caamrng.c

174
175 #ifdef CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_FSL_CAAM_RNG_TEST
176 static inline void test_len(struct hwrng *rng, size_t len, bool wait)
177 {
178 u8 *buf;
179 int read_len;
180 struct caam_rng_ctx *ctx = to_caam_rng_ctx(rng);
181 struct device *dev = ctx->ctrldev;
182
183 buf = kcalloc(CAAM_RNG_MAX_FIFO_STORE_SIZE, sizeof(u8), GFP_KERNEL);
184
185 if (!buf) {
> 186 return -ENOMEM;
187 }
188 while (len > 0) {
189 read_len = rng->read(rng, buf, len, wait);
190
191 if (read_len < 0 || (read_len == 0 && wait)) {
192 dev_err(dev, "RNG Read FAILED received %d bytes\n",
193 read_len);
194 kfree(buf);
195 return;
196 }
197
198 print_hex_dump_debug("random bytes@: ",
199 DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, 16, 4,
200 buf, read_len, 1);
201
202 len = len - read_len;
203 }
204
205 kfree(buf);
206 }
207

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