From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Subject: [patch] net/llc: make opt unsigned in llc_ui_setsockopt() Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:56:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20100910115616.GD5959@bicker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "David S. Miller" , Octavian Purdila , Stephen Hemminger , Eric Dumazet , netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:52076 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753261Ab0IJL4l (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:56:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The members of struct llc_sock are unsigned so if we pass a negative value for "opt" it can cause a sign bug. Also it can cause an integer overflow when we multiply "opt * HZ". CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/net/llc/af_llc.c b/net/llc/af_llc.c index 023ba82..5826129 100644 --- a/net/llc/af_llc.c +++ b/net/llc/af_llc.c @@ -1024,7 +1024,8 @@ static int llc_ui_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, { struct sock *sk = sock->sk; struct llc_sock *llc = llc_sk(sk); - int rc = -EINVAL, opt; + unsigned int opt; + int rc = -EINVAL; lock_sock(sk); if (unlikely(level != SOL_LLC || optlen != sizeof(int)))