From patchwork Mon Mar 7 22:36:18 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 593413 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E18140082; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:41:46 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3qR-0002lG-I0; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:41:43 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3lG-0008H9-K0 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:36:22 +0000 Received: from 1.general.kamal.us.vpn ([10.172.68.52] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3lG-0007gU-5y; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:36:22 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3lD-00015I-Hv; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:36:19 -0800 From: Kamal Mostafa To: Anton Protopopov Subject: [4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:36:18 -0800 Message-Id: <1457390178-4133-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Cc: Cong Wang , Kamal Mostafa , "David S . Miller" , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt5. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From 913be3fb1b5fbcf9cf56c74011eb150d803e2ade Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Protopopov Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:43:16 -0500 Subject: rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value [ 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 Acked-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- net/ipv4/devinet.c | 2 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.7.0 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;