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. =============== [ 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html