linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 015/233] PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register

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Date:   Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:47:14 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        "Srinivas Pandruvada" <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 015/233] PowerCap: Fix an error code in
 powercap_register_zone()

3.16.48-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

commit 216c4e9db4c9d1d2a382b42880442dc632cd47d9 upstream.

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@...cle.com>
Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 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;