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[3.19.y-ckt,179/196] rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value

Message ID 1457483454-30115-180-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa March 9, 2016, 12:30 a.m. UTC 
3.19.8-ckt16 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>

[ 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@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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 net/ipv4/devinet.c  | 2 +-
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 214882e..4f8ea2d 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1806,7 +1806,7 @@  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 e0ffd02..21b7055 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@  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;