Patch "rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value

to the 4.4-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:
rtnl-rtm_getnetconf-fix-wrong-return-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Anton Protopopov <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:43:16 -0500
Subject: rtnl: RTM_GETNETCONF: fix wrong return value

From: Anton Protopopov <[email protected]>

[ 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.

---
 net/ipv4/devinet.c  |    2 +-
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ static int inet_netconf_get_devconf(stru
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto errout;
 
-	err = EINVAL;
+	err = -EINVAL;
 	if (!tb[NETCONFA_IFINDEX])
 		goto errout;
 

@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ static int inet6_netconf_get_devconf(str
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto errout;
 
-	err = EINVAL;
+	err = -EINVAL;
 	if (!tb[NETCONFA_IFINDEX])
 		goto errout;
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/rtnl-rtm_getnetconf-fix-wrong-return-value.patch