From b7058842c940ad2c08dd829b21e5c92ebe3b8758 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:12:20 -0700 Subject: net: Make setsockopt() optlen be unsigned. This provides safety against negative optlen at the type level instead of depending upon (sometimes non-trivial) checks against this sprinkled all over the the place, in each and every implementation. Based upon work done by Arjan van de Ven and feedback from Linus Torvalds. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/dccp/dccp.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/dccp/dccp.h') diff --git a/net/dccp/dccp.h b/net/dccp/dccp.h index d6bc47363b1c..5ef32c2f0d6a 100644 --- a/net/dccp/dccp.h +++ b/net/dccp/dccp.h @@ -290,14 +290,14 @@ extern int dccp_disconnect(struct sock *sk, int flags); extern int dccp_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, int __user *optlen); extern int dccp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, - char __user *optval, int optlen); + char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen); #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT extern int compat_dccp_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, int __user *optlen); extern int compat_dccp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, - char __user *optval, int optlen); + char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen); #endif extern int dccp_ioctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, unsigned long arg); extern int dccp_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, -- cgit v1.2.3