4.2.8-ckt5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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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.

Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]>
---
 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 2d9cb17..0420012 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1845,7 +1845,7 @@ 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 ff6e0dc..335f495 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ 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;
 
-- 
2.7.0

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