This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tipc: use only positive error codes in messages to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tipc-use-only-positive-error-codes-in-messages.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Oct 10 16:09:22 CEST 2017 From: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:02:54 +0200 Subject: tipc: use only positive error codes in messages From: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit aad06212d36cf34859428a0a279e5c14ee5c9e26 ] In commit e3a77561e7d32 ("tipc: split up function tipc_msg_eval()"), we have updated the function tipc_msg_lookup_dest() to set the error codes to negative values at destination lookup failures. Thus when the function sets the error code to -TIPC_ERR_NO_NAME, its inserted into the 4 bit error field of the message header as 0xf instead of TIPC_ERR_NO_NAME (1). The value 0xf is an unknown error code. In this commit, we set only positive error code. Fixes: e3a77561e7d32 ("tipc: split up function tipc_msg_eval()") Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/tipc/msg.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/tipc/msg.c +++ b/net/tipc/msg.c @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ bool tipc_msg_lookup_dest(struct net *ne return false; if (msg_errcode(msg)) return false; - *err = -TIPC_ERR_NO_NAME; + *err = TIPC_ERR_NO_NAME; if (skb_linearize(skb)) return false; msg = buf_msg(skb); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/tipc-use-only-positive-error-codes-in-messages.patch