Comment # 2 on bug 1231268 from Takashi Iwai

(In reply to Avinesh Kumar from comment #1)
> > git show ce212d2afca47acd366a2e74c76fe82c31f785ab
> commit ce212d2afca47acd366a2e74c76fe82c31f785ab
> Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date:   Tue Sep 10 17:30:24 2024 +0800
> 
>     crypto: n2 - Set err to EINVAL if snprintf fails for hmac
>     
>     Return EINVAL if the snprintf check fails when constructing the
>     algorithm names.
>     
>     Fixes: 8c20982caca4 ("crypto: n2 - Silence gcc format-truncation false
> positive warnings")
>     Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
>     Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
>     Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202409090726.TP0WfY7p-lkp@intel.com/
>     Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/n2_core.c b/drivers/crypto/n2_core.c
> index 251e088a53df..b11545cc5cb7 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/n2_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/n2_core.c
> @@ -1353,6 +1353,7 @@ static int __n2_register_one_hmac(struct n2_ahash_alg
> *n2ahash)
>         ahash->setkey = n2_hmac_async_setkey;
>  
>         base = &ahash->halg.base;
> +       err = -EINVAL;
>         if (snprintf(base->cra_name, CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME, "hmac(%s)",
>                      p->child_alg) >= CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME)
>                 goto out_free_p;
> _______________
> 
> 
> this commit might be related which went in 6.12-rc1 is related.  

Hm, this driver is for Niagara2 on Sparc64, hence it must be irrelevant.

But there can be other crypto changes that return -EINVAL.