[[stable] [069/152] econet: Do the correct cleanup after an unprivileged 
SIOCSIFADDR.] On 05/01/2011 (Wed 16:22) Greg KH wrote:

> 2.6.36-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> 
> From: Nelson Elhage <[email protected]>
> 
> [ Upstream commit f24b8bedf70c524775eabd51570c3fa7708a97b7 ]

I think the upstream # got mangled somehow.  Looking at the tree, I
think the upstream is 0c62fc6dd02c8d793c75ae76a9b6881fc36388ad.

The ID listed currently gives me a "bad object". 

Thanks,
Paul.

> 
> We need to drop the mutex and do a dev_put, so set an error code and break 
> like
> the other paths, instead of returning directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> ---
>  net/econet/af_econet.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
> +++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
> @@ -661,8 +661,10 @@ static int ec_dev_ioctl(struct socket *s
>       err = 0;
>       switch (cmd) {
>       case SIOCSIFADDR:
> -             if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
> -                     return -EPERM;
> +             if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
> +                     err = -EPERM;
> +                     break;
> +             }
>  
>               edev = dev->ec_ptr;
>               if (edev == NULL) {
> 
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