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/core/sock.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/core/sock.c') diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c index 524712a7b154..77fbfed332e8 100644 --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ static inline void sock_valbool_flag(struct sock *sk, int bit, int valbool) */ int sock_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, - char __user *optval, int optlen) + char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen) { struct sock *sk = sock->sk; int val; @@ -1697,7 +1697,7 @@ int sock_no_shutdown(struct socket *sock, int how) EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_no_shutdown); int sock_no_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, - char __user *optval, int optlen) + char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen) { return -EOPNOTSUPP; } @@ -2018,7 +2018,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_common_recvmsg); * Set socket options on an inet socket. */ int sock_common_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, - char __user *optval, int optlen) + char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen) { struct sock *sk = sock->sk; @@ -2028,7 +2028,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_common_setsockopt); #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT int compat_sock_common_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, - char __user *optval, int optlen) + char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen) { struct sock *sk = sock->sk; -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522