From 4df864c1d9afb46e2461a9f808d9f11a42d31bad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:29:21 +0200 Subject: networking: make skb_put & 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 (skb_put, __skb_put and pskb_put) 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_put, __skb_put }; @@ - *(fn(SKB, LEN)) + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN) @@ expression E, SKB, LEN; identifier fn = { skb_put, __skb_put }; type T; @@ - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN))) + E = fn(SKB, LEN) which actually doesn't cover pskb_put since there are only three users overall. A handful of stragglers were converted manually, notably a macro in drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_bsdcomp.c and, oddly enough, one of the many instances in net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c. In the former file, I also had to fix one whitespace problem spatch introduced. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/atm/clip.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/atm') diff --git a/net/atm/clip.c b/net/atm/clip.c index ec527b62f79d..a7e4018370b4 100644 --- a/net/atm/clip.c +++ b/net/atm/clip.c @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static int to_atmarpd(enum atmarp_ctrl_type type, int itf, __be32 ip) skb = alloc_skb(sizeof(struct atmarp_ctrl), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!skb) return -ENOMEM; - ctrl = (struct atmarp_ctrl *)skb_put(skb, sizeof(struct atmarp_ctrl)); + ctrl = skb_put(skb, sizeof(struct atmarp_ctrl)); ctrl->type = type; ctrl->itf_num = itf; ctrl->ip = ip; -- cgit v1.2.3