From patchwork Wed Mar 9 00:30:37 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 594767 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 95B5314031D; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:43:34 +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 1adSDr-0005Lu-Is; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:43:31 +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 1adS8L-0001Wo-2J for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:37:49 +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 1adS8K-0003zY-K3; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:37:48 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1adS8H-0008B6-VW; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:37:45 -0800 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 179/196] rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:30:37 -0800 Message-Id: <1457483454-30115-180-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 In-Reply-To: <1457483454-30115-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1457483454-30115-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.19 Cc: Anton Protopopov , Kamal Mostafa , "David S . Miller" 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 3.19.8-ckt16 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Anton Protopopov [ 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(-) 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;