On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:45:03PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> When a list is completely iterated with 'list_for_each_entry(x, ...)', x is
> not NULL at the end.
> 
> Introduce an intermediate variable and test it instead, in order to
> reliably know if something was found or not.
> 
> Fixes: f2663872f073 ("crypto: cavium - Register the CNN55XX supported crypto 
> algorithms.")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_main.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_main.c 
> b/drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_main.c
> index 788c6607078b..172cafe7c039 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_main.c
> @@ -278,15 +278,18 @@ static void nitrox_remove_from_devlist(struct 
> nitrox_device *ndev)
>  
>  struct nitrox_device *nitrox_get_first_device(void)
>  {
> -     struct nitrox_device *ndev = NULL;
> +     struct nitrox_device *ndev;
> +     bool found = false;
>  
>       mutex_lock(&devlist_lock);
>       list_for_each_entry(ndev, &ndevlist, list) {
> -             if (nitrox_ready(ndev))
> +             if (nitrox_ready(ndev)) {
> +                     found = true;
>                       break;
> +             }
>       }
>       mutex_unlock(&devlist_lock);
> -     if (!ndev)

Instead of adding found, you could fix this by changing the test to

        if (&ndev->list == &nevlist)

Cheers,
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