[PATCH 3.18 018/121] PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>


[ 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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;