[34-longterm 148/209] econet: Do the correct cleanup after an unprivileged SIOCSIFADDR.

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Thu Apr 14 2011 - 14:11:57 EST


From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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| This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. |
| If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.|
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commit 0c62fc6dd02c8d793c75ae76a9b6881fc36388ad upstream

We need to drop the mutex and do a dev_put, so set an error code and break like
the other paths, instead of returning directly.

Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/econet/af_econet.c | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/econet/af_econet.c b/net/econet/af_econet.c
index 2e41c76..e40e6b0 100644
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -661,8 +661,10 @@ static int ec_dev_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
err = 0;
switch (cmd) {
case SIOCSIFADDR:
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
+ if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
+ err = -EPERM;
+ break;
+ }

edev = dev->ec_ptr;
if (edev == NULL) {
--
1.7.4.4

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