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

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 03:57:36PM +0000, Wentao Liang wrote:
> chcr_aes_encrypt() increments dev->inflight via atomic_inc() before
> submitting the cipher operation. If chcr_start_cipher() subsequently
> fails, the function returns an error without decrementing dev->inflight,
> causing the counter to drift and potentially stalling future operations
> that rely on the counter reaching zero.
> 
> Add atomic_dec(&dev->inflight) on the chcr_start_cipher() failure path
> to restore the counter.
> 
> Fixes: b8fd1f4170e7 ("crypto: chcr - Add ctr mode and process large sg entries for cipher")

I think it should be 

fef4912b66d6 ("crypto: chelsio - Handle PCI shutdown event")

Thanks,
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