From 3f553b308bb004eb730da8e00a28150c157c7724 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leon Yu Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 23:16:24 +0800 Subject: module: propagate error in modules_open() 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 Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15+ Signed-off-by: Leon Yu Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu --- kernel/module.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/module.c') diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index ad2d420024f6..e42764acedb4 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -4228,7 +4228,7 @@ static int modules_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) m->private = kallsyms_show_value() ? NULL : (void *)8ul; } - return 0; + return err; } static const struct file_operations proc_modules_operations = { -- cgit v1.2.3