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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2017-06-16 14:29:22 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-06-16 11:48:39 -0400
commitaf72868b9070d1b843c829f0d0d0b22c04a20815 (patch)
tree537bb273e315e1238cff969adbfc70cb35ba9a44 /net/core
parent4df864c1d9afb46e2461a9f808d9f11a42d31bad (diff)
downloadlinux-af72868b9070d1b843c829f0d0d0b22c04a20815.tar.gz
networking: make skb_pull & friends return void pointers
It seems like a historic accident that these return unsigned char *,
and in many places that means casts are required, more often than not.

Make these functions return void * and remove all the casts across
the tree, adding a (u8 *) cast only where the unsigned char pointer
was used directly, all done with the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, LEN;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = {
            skb_pull,
            __skb_pull,
            skb_pull_inline,
            __pskb_pull_tail,
            __pskb_pull,
            pskb_pull
    };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = {
            skb_pull,
            __skb_pull,
            skb_pull_inline,
            __pskb_pull_tail,
            __pskb_pull,
            pskb_pull
    };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 0baa7f2dd8ef..9a1639f7d61a 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_push);
  *	is returned. Once the data has been pulled future pushes will overwrite
  *	the old data.
  */
-unsigned char *skb_pull(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
+void *skb_pull(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
 {
 	return skb_pull_inline(skb, len);
 }
@@ -1616,7 +1616,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(___pskb_trim);
  *
  * It is pretty complicated. Luckily, it is called only in exceptional cases.
  */
-unsigned char *__pskb_pull_tail(struct sk_buff *skb, int delta)
+void *__pskb_pull_tail(struct sk_buff *skb, int delta)
 {
 	/* If skb has not enough free space at tail, get new one
 	 * plus 128 bytes for future expansions. If we have enough
@@ -3065,7 +3065,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(skb_append_pagefrags);
  *	that the checksum difference is zero (e.g., a valid IP header)
  *	or you are setting ip_summed to CHECKSUM_NONE.
  */
-unsigned char *skb_pull_rcsum(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
+void *skb_pull_rcsum(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
 {
 	unsigned char *data = skb->data;