Patch "PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone()

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Apr  9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 22:40:06 +0300
Subject: PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>


[ Upstream commit 216c4e9db4c9d1d2a382b42880442dc632cd47d9 ]

In the current code we accidentally return the successful result from
idr_alloc() instead of a negative error pointer.  The caller is looking
for an error pointer and so it treats the returned value as a valid
pointer.

This one might be a bit serious because if it lets people get around the
kernel's protection for remapping NULL.  I'm not sure.

Fixes: 75d2364ea0ca (PowerCap: Add class driver)
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c
+++ b/drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c
@@ -538,6 +538,7 @@ struct powercap_zone *powercap_register_
 
 	power_zone->id = result;
 	idr_init(&power_zone->idr);
+	result = -ENOMEM;
 	power_zone->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!power_zone->name)
 		goto err_name_alloc;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.9/block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch
queue-4.9/x.509-fix-error-code-in-x509_cert_parse.patch
queue-4.9/rdma-iw_cxgb4-avoid-touch-after-free-error-in-arp-failure-handlers.patch
queue-4.9/drm-amdkfd-null-dereference-involving-create_process.patch
queue-4.9/pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch
queue-4.9/drivers-misc-vmw_vmci-vmci_queue_pair.c-fix-a-couple-integer-overflow-tests.patch
queue-4.9/cxl-unlock-on-error-in-probe.patch
queue-4.9/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch
queue-4.9/ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.patch
queue-4.9/powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch
queue-4.9/perf-core-fix-error-handling-in-perf_event_alloc.patch
queue-4.9/libceph-null-deref-on-crush_decode-error-path.patch