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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
commitb7058842c940ad2c08dd829b21e5c92ebe3b8758 (patch)
tree5fe78d599fc345ca0bcd4b083b79095a54b2921b /net/iucv
parenteb1cf0f8f7a9e5a6d573d5bd72c015686a042db0 (diff)
downloadlinux-b7058842c940ad2c08dd829b21e5c92ebe3b8758.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/iucv')
-rw-r--r--net/iucv/af_iucv.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/iucv/af_iucv.c b/net/iucv/af_iucv.c
index d985d163dcfc..bada1b9c670b 100644
--- a/net/iucv/af_iucv.c
+++ b/net/iucv/af_iucv.c
@@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ static int iucv_sock_release(struct socket *sock)
 
 /* getsockopt and setsockopt */
 static int iucv_sock_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
-				char __user *optval, int optlen)
+				char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen)
 {
 	struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
 	struct iucv_sock *iucv = iucv_sk(sk);