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