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/tcp.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/net/tcp.h') diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index 56b76027b85e..03a49c703377 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -394,13 +394,13 @@ extern int tcp_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int __user *optlen); extern int tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, - int optlen); + unsigned int optlen); extern int compat_tcp_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, int __user *optlen); extern int compat_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, - char __user *optval, int optlen); + char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen); extern void tcp_set_keepalive(struct sock *sk, int val); extern int tcp_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, -- cgit v1.2.2