Patch "PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone()
to the 4.9-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:
powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 22:40:06 +0300
Subject: PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone()
From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
[ 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.
--- drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c +1 -0
@@ -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;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.9/block-fix-an-error-code-in-add_partition.patch queue-4.9/x.509-fix-error-code-in-x509_cert_parse.patch queue-4.9/rdma-iw_cxgb4-avoid-touch-after-free-error-in-arp-failure-handlers.patch queue-4.9/drm-amdkfd-null-dereference-involving-create_process.patch queue-4.9/pnfs-flexfiles-missing-error-code-in-ff_layout_alloc_lseg.patch queue-4.9/drivers-misc-vmw_vmci-vmci_queue_pair.c-fix-a-couple-integer-overflow-tests.patch queue-4.9/cxl-unlock-on-error-in-probe.patch queue-4.9/md-cluster-fix-potential-lock-issue-in-add_new_disk.patch queue-4.9/ipmi_ssif-unlock-on-allocation-failure.patch queue-4.9/powercap-fix-an-error-code-in-powercap_register_zone.patch queue-4.9/perf-core-fix-error-handling-in-perf_event_alloc.patch queue-4.9/libceph-null-deref-on-crush_decode-error-path.patch