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/sctp/structs.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/net/sctp/structs.h') diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h index 42d00ced5eb..6e5f0e0c796 100644 --- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h +++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ struct sctp_af { int level, int optname, char __user *optval, - int optlen); + unsigned int optlen); int (*getsockopt) (struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ struct sctp_af { int level, int optname, char __user *optval, - int optlen); + unsigned int optlen); int (*compat_getsockopt) (struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, -- cgit v1.2.3