Patch "module: propagate error in modules_open()" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

module: propagate error in modules_open()

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
module-propagate-error-in-modules_open.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Leon Yu <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 23:16:24 +0800
Subject: module: propagate error in modules_open()

From: Leon Yu <[email protected]>

commit 3f553b308bb004eb730da8e00a28150c157c7724 upstream.

otherwise kernel can oops later in seq_release() due to dereferencing null file->private_data which is only set if seq_open() succeeds.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
IP: seq_release+0xc/0x30
Call Trace:
 close_pdeo+0x37/0xd0
 proc_reg_release+0x5d/0x60
 __fput+0x9d/0x1d0
 ____fput+0x9/0x10
 task_work_run+0x75/0x90
 do_exit+0x252/0xa00
 do_group_exit+0x36/0xb0
 SyS_exit_group+0xf/0x10

---
 kernel/module.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -4223,7 +4223,7 @@ static int modules_open(struct inode *in
 		m->private = kallsyms_show_value() ? NULL : (void *)8ul;
 	}
 
-	return 0;
+	return err;
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations proc_modules_operations = {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.15/module-propagate-error-in-modules_open.patch