[Devel] [PATCH vz10 6/6] ms/selftest: net: fix socklen_t type mismatch in sctp_collision test

Konstantin Khorenko khorenko at virtuozzo.com
Mon Mar 23 20:07:34 MSK 2026


From: Ankit Khushwaha <ankitkhushwaha.linux at gmail.com>

Socket APIs like recvfrom(), accept(), and getsockname() expect socklen_t*
arg, but tests were using int variables. This causes -Wpointer-sign
warnings on platforms where socklen_t is unsigned.

Change the variable type from int to socklen_t to resolve the warning and
ensure type safety across platforms.

warning fixed:

sctp_collision.c:62:70: warning: passing 'int *' to parameter of
type 'socklen_t *' (aka 'unsigned int *') converts between pointers to
integer types with different sign [-Wpointer-sign]
   62 |                 ret = recvfrom(sd, buf, sizeof(buf),
									0, (struct sockaddr *)&daddr, &len);
      |                                                           ^~~~
/usr/include/sys/socket.h:165:27: note: passing argument to
parameter '__addr_len' here
  165 |                          socklen_t *__restrict __addr_len);
      |                                                ^

Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum at collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Ankit Khushwaha <ankitkhushwaha.linux at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028172947.53153-1-ankitkhushwaha.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>

(cherry picked from commit afb8f6567a5b4bb4e673608048939fef854b8709)
Applied cleanly.

https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-127529
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at virtuozzo.com>

Feature: fix selftests
---
 tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/sctp_collision.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/sctp_collision.c b/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/sctp_collision.c
index 21bb1cfd8a85..b282d1785c9b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/sctp_collision.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/sctp_collision.c
@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	struct sockaddr_in saddr = {}, daddr = {};
-	int sd, ret, len = sizeof(daddr);
+	socklen_t len = sizeof(daddr);
 	struct timeval tv = {25, 0};
 	char buf[] = "hello";
+	int sd, ret;
 
 	if (argc != 6 || (strcmp(argv[1], "server") && strcmp(argv[1], "client"))) {
 		printf("%s <server|client> <LOCAL_IP> <LOCAL_PORT> <REMOTE_IP> <REMOTE_PORT>\n",
-- 
2.47.1



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