4.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Leon Yu <chianglungyu@xxxxxxxxx> 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 Fixes: 516fb7f2e73d ("/proc/module: use the same logic as /proc/kallsyms for address exposure") Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.15+ Signed-off-by: Leon Yu <chianglungyu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/module.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -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 = {