From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752188AbdIIWcx (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2017 18:32:53 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:41768 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751979AbdIIWYx (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2017 18:24:53 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Srinivas Pandruvada" , "Dan Carpenter" Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:47:14 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 015/233] PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.48-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter 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 Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- 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;