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/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index d3d52c66..1238949 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -1701,7 +1701,7 @@
}
static int
-packet_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, int optlen)
+packet_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen)
{
struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
struct packet_sock *po = pkt_sk(sk);