From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34420 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933457AbeDKSyR (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:54:17 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter , Srinivas Pandruvada , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 042/310] PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone() Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:33:01 +0200 Message-Id: <20180411183624.080219352@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180411183622.305902791@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180411183622.305902791@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter [ 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 Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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;