[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 131/138] rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Wed Mar 09 2016 - 18:25:50 EST


3.13.11-ckt36 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@xxxxxxxxx>

commit a97eb33ff225f34a8124774b3373fd244f0e83ce upstream.

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 f4b34d8..6844710 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1785,7 +1785,7 @@ 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 dd8b55b..c476142 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ 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;

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