[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Mar 22 10:24:54 UTC 2016
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt26.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 22fcacd62f036fa454a8a3976a9c9585ddc56126 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:43:16 -0500
Subject: rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value
commit a97eb33ff225f34a8124774b3373fd244f0e83ce upstream.
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 at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
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 e9449376b58e..aa4b9990dd7a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1798,7 +1798,7 @@ 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 405575f9ae77..c844b31c767e 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ 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;
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