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 <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/ipv6.h b/include/net/ipv6.h
index ad9a51130254..8c31d8a0c1fe 100644
--- a/include/net/ipv6.h
+++ b/include/net/ipv6.h
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ extern int ipv6_find_tlv(struct sk_buff *skb, int offset, int type);
 extern int                      ipv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, 
                                                 int optname,
                                                 char __user *optval, 
-                                                int optlen);
+                                                unsigned int optlen);
 extern int                      ipv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, 
                                                 int optname,
                                                 char __user *optval, 
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ extern int			compat_ipv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk,
                                                 int level,
                                                 int optname,
                                                 char __user *optval,
-                                                int optlen);
+                                                unsigned int optlen);
 extern int                      compat_ipv6_getsockopt(struct sock *sk,
                                                 int level,
                                                 int optname,