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>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
index b265b70..3a60f12 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
@@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@
* Socket option code for UDP
*/
int udpv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
- char __user *optval, int optlen)
+ char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen)
{
if (level == SOL_UDP || level == SOL_UDPLITE)
return udp_lib_setsockopt(sk, level, optname, optval, optlen,
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
int compat_udpv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
- char __user *optval, int optlen)
+ char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen)
{
if (level == SOL_UDP || level == SOL_UDPLITE)
return udp_lib_setsockopt(sk, level, optname, optval, optlen,