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>
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;
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