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Message-Id: <1457391064-6660-251-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:50:41 -0800
From: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@...il.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 250/273] rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value
4.2.8-ckt5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
---8<------------------------------------------------------------
From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@...il.com>
[ Upstream commit a97eb33ff225f34a8124774b3373fd244f0e83ce ]
An error response from a RTM_GETNETCONF request can return the positive
error value EINVAL in the struct nlmsgerr that can mislead userspace.
Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@...il.com>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
net/ipv4/devinet.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 2d9cb17..0420012 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1845,7 +1845,7 @@ static int inet_netconf_get_devconf(struct sk_buff *in_skb,
if (err < 0)
goto errout;
- err = EINVAL;
+ err = -EINVAL;
if (!tb[NETCONFA_IFINDEX])
goto errout;
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index ff6e0dc..335f495 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static int inet6_netconf_get_devconf(struct sk_buff *in_skb,
if (err < 0)
goto errout;
- err = EINVAL;
+ err = -EINVAL;
if (!tb[NETCONFA_IFINDEX])
goto errout;
--
2.7.0
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