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 --- include/net/ip.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/net/ip.h') diff --git a/include/net/ip.h b/include/net/ip.h index 5b26a0bd178e..2f47e5482b55 100644 --- a/include/net/ip.h +++ b/include/net/ip.h @@ -381,10 +381,10 @@ extern int ip_options_rcv_srr(struct sk_buff *skb); extern void ip_cmsg_recv(struct msghdr *msg, struct sk_buff *skb); extern int ip_cmsg_send(struct net *net, struct msghdr *msg, struct ipcm_cookie *ipc); -extern int ip_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, int optlen); +extern int ip_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen); extern int ip_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, int __user *optlen); extern int compat_ip_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, - int optname, char __user *optval, int optlen); + int optname, char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen); extern int compat_ip_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, int __user *optlen); extern int ip_ra_control(struct sock *sk, unsigned char on, void (*destructor)(struct sock *)); -- cgit v1.2.3