[PATCH] rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value

From: Anton Protopopov
Date: Tue Feb 16 2016 - 21:47:31 EST


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>
---
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 cebd9d3..f6303b1 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ 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 9efd9ff..bdd7eac 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ 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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