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/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c b/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c
index cc394d0..5910df6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pppol2tp.c
@@ -2179,7 +2179,7 @@
* session or the special tunnel type.
*/
static int pppol2tp_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 pppol2tp_session *session = sk->sk_user_data;