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/atm/common.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/atm/common.h') diff --git a/net/atm/common.h b/net/atm/common.h index 92e2981f479f..f48a76b6cdf4 100644 --- a/net/atm/common.h +++ b/net/atm/common.h @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ unsigned int vcc_poll(struct file *file, struct socket *sock, poll_table *wait); int vcc_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg); int vcc_compat_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg); int vcc_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, - char __user *optval, int optlen); + char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen); int vcc_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, int __user *optlen); -- cgit v1.2.3