[PATCH 4.4 044/342] rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 01 2016 - 20:31:42 EST


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

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

[ 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@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/devinet.c | 2 +-
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ static int inet_netconf_get_devconf(stru
if (err < 0)
goto errout;

- err = EINVAL;
+ err = -EINVAL;
if (!tb[NETCONFA_IFINDEX])
goto errout;

--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ static int inet6_netconf_get_devconf(str
if (err < 0)
goto errout;

- err = EINVAL;
+ err = -EINVAL;
if (!tb[NETCONFA_IFINDEX])
goto errout;