2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Arjan van de Ven fixed upstream in commit b7058842c940ad2c08dd829b21e5c92ebe3b8758 in a different way The length of the to-copy data structure is currently stored in a signed integer. However many comparisons are done with sizeof(..) which is unsigned. It's more suitable for this variable to be unsigned to make these comparisons more naturally right. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -1836,7 +1836,7 @@ packet_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, i static int packet_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, char __user *optval, int __user *optlen) { - int len; + unsigned int len; int val; struct sock *sk = sock->sk; struct packet_sock *po = pkt_sk(sk); @@ -1849,7 +1849,7 @@ static int packet_getsockopt(struct sock if (get_user(len, optlen)) return -EFAULT; - if (len < 0) + if ((int)len < 0) return -EINVAL; switch (optname) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/