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When QCE returns\n-EINPROGRESS, ksmbd treats it as an error and immediately frees the\nrequest while the hardware DMA operation is still in flight. The DMA\ncompletion callback then dereferences freed memory, causing a NULL\npointer crash:\n\n pc : qce_skcipher_done+0x24/0x174\n lr : vchan_complete+0x230/0x27c\n ...\n el1h_64_irq+0x68/0x6c\n ksmbd_free_work_struct+0x20/0x118 [ksmbd]\n ksmbd_exit_file_cache+0x694/0xa4c [ksmbd]\n\nUse the standard crypto_wait_req() pattern with crypto_req_done() as\nthe completion callback, matching the approach used by the SMB client\nin fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c. 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