3.16.7-ckt26 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopo...@gmail.com>

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.protopo...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@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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