Re: crypto: api - Fix use-after-free and race in crypto_spawn_alg

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 07:30:01PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here.  crypto_alg_get() is:
> 
> static inline struct crypto_alg *crypto_alg_get(struct crypto_alg *alg)
> {
>         refcount_inc(&alg->cra_refcnt);
>         return alg;
> }
> 
> So given:
> 
> 	target = crypto_alg_get(alg);
> 
> Both alg and target have to be non-NULL.

Yes I know that we know that it can't be NULL, but gcc 8.3 doesn't.

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