From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:43:16 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~475^2~374
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b7c2e2acc62c3c1a7d2b36032fd14ee53417fa7d;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

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 <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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index cebd9d31e65a..f6303b17546b 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 828ab28854c8..e8d3da0817d3 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;