PowerCap: Fix an error code in powercap_register_zone()
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1765010 [ Upstream commit 216c4e9d ] 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: 75d2364e (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> Signed-off-by:
Juerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
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