Hi,

> The issue here is that line 56 implies that pointer tfm_michael
> might be NULL. If this is the case, there is a potential NULL
> pointer dereference at line 52 once pointer tfm_michael is
> indirectly dereferenced inside macro SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK().
> 
> My question is if there is any chance that pointer tfm_michael
> might be NULL when calling macro SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK() ?
> 
> I'm trying to figure out if this is a false positive or something
> that needs to be fixed somehow.

Look, if you're just sending the coverity reports to the list without
reflecting and researching them, that's not actually useful - we can
look at them ourselves.

It took me at most a few minutes to figure this one out, so please just
do the same, look at the code, and figure out what the right answer is
here.

johannes

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