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>
This commit is contained in:
David S. Miller
2009-09-30 16:12:20 -07:00
parent eb1cf0f8f7
commit b7058842c9
67 changed files with 149 additions and 153 deletions
+3 -3
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@@ -2032,7 +2032,7 @@ int tcp_disconnect(struct sock *sk, int flags)
* Socket option code for TCP.
*/
static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
int optname, char __user *optval, int optlen)
int optname, char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen)
{
struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
@@ -2220,7 +2220,7 @@ static int do_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level,
}
int tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, char __user *optval,
int optlen)
unsigned int optlen)
{
struct inet_connection_sock *icsk = inet_csk(sk);
@@ -2232,7 +2232,7 @@ int tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname, char __user *optval,
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
int compat_tcp_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
char __user *optval, int optlen)
char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen)
{
if (level != SOL_TCP)
return inet_csk_compat_setsockopt(sk, level, optname,