From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 19:40:06 +0000 (+0300) Subject: PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone() X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d6701d258d3c916aca4515c9d32dc7340b0e22b4;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone() [ 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 --- diff --git a/drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c b/drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c index 14bde0db8c24..5b10b50f8686 100644 --- a/drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c +++ b/drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c @@ -538,6 +538,7 @@ struct powercap_zone *powercap_register_zone( 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;