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/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/netfilter') diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c b/net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c index 8ab829f86574..f042ae521557 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static int nf_sockopt(struct sock *sk, u_int8_t pf, int val, } int nf_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, u_int8_t pf, int val, char __user *opt, - int len) + unsigned int len) { return nf_sockopt(sk, pf, val, opt, &len, 0); } @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static int compat_nf_sockopt(struct sock *sk, u_int8_t pf, int val, } int compat_nf_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, u_int8_t pf, - int val, char __user *opt, int len) + int val, char __user *opt, unsigned int len) { return compat_nf_sockopt(sk, pf, val, opt, &len, 0); } -- cgit v1.2.3