PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone()
authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Wed, 10 May 2017 19:40:06 +0000 (22:40 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:50:05 +0000 (19:50 +0200)
commitd57f7ddcc20589ba05b30fc48dd42a40ece32e56
tree28cc6dc63c3180ef7b42ab8a14b1f818c7c4ef32
parent0abaff3c28055046afffd0c2a3fd3ad702481991
PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone()

[ 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@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c