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/net/atm/common.h b/net/atm/common.h
index 92e2981..f48a76b 100644
--- a/net/atm/common.h
+++ b/net/atm/common.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
int vcc_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
int vcc_compat_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
int vcc_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
- char __user *optval, int optlen);
+ char __user *optval, unsigned int optlen);
int vcc_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
char __user *optval, int __user *optlen);