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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-30 16:12:20 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-30 16:12:20 -0700
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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>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 41e8847508aa..75655365b5fd 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -2391,7 +2391,7 @@ int kernel_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
}
int kernel_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
- char *optval, int optlen)
+ char *optval, unsigned int optlen)
{
mm_segment_t oldfs = get_fs();
int err;