[ Upstream commit
0c62fc6dd02c8d793c75ae76a9b6881fc36388ad]
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 <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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) {