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/ipv4/ipmr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/ipmr.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c index c43ec2d51ce2..630a56df7b47 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c @@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ static void mrtsock_destruct(struct sock *sk) * MOSPF/PIM router set up we can clean this up. */ -int ip_mroute_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int optname, char __user *optval, int optlen) +int ip_mroute_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int optname, char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen) { int ret; struct vifctl vif; -- cgit v1.2.1