[patch added to 3.12-stable] rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value

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

This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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[ 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
 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 f4b34d8f92fe..68447109000f 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1785,7 +1785,7 @@ 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 6c629ffb8756..bbf35875e4ef 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ 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;
 
-- 
2.7.2

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