Patch "tipc: use only positive error codes in messages" 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

tipc: use only positive error codes in messages

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:
tipc-use-only-positive-error-codes-in-messages.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: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:02:54 +0200
Subject: tipc: use only positive error codes in messages

From: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <[email protected]>

[ 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.

---
 net/tipc/msg.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ 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 [email protected] are

queue-4.4/tipc-use-only-positive-error-codes-in-messages.patch