Re: [PATCH] crypto: chelsio: fix inflight counter leak in chcr_aead_op()

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 04:06:55PM +0000, Wentao Liang wrote:
> chcr_aead_op() increments cdev->inflight via atomic_inc() before
> submitting the AEAD operation. If the operation fails after the
> increment (e.g., chcr_start_aead() returns an error), the function
> returns without decrementing cdev->inflight. This leaks a reference
> on the inflight counter, preventing proper teardown sequencing.
> 
> Add atomic_dec(&cdev->inflight) on the error path to balance the
> counter.
> 
> Fixes: d91a3159e8d9 ("Crypto/chcr: fix gcm-aes and rfc4106-gcm failed tests")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_algo.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Please merge these patches into one.  There is no need to send
one patch per function.

Thanks,
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