From d58ff35122847a83ba55394e2ae3a1527b6febf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:29:23 +0200 Subject: networking: make skb_push & __skb_push 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_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum }; @@ - *(fn(SKB, LEN)) + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN) @@ expression E, SKB, LEN; identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum }; type T; @@ - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN))) + E = fn(SKB, LEN) @@ expression SKB, LEN; identifier fn = { skb_push, __skb_push, skb_push_rcsum }; @@ - fn(SKB, LEN)[0] + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN) Note that the last part there converts from push(...)[0] to the more idiomatic *(u8 *)push(...). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ethernet/eth.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ethernet') diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c index 1446810047f5..eaeba9b99a73 100644 --- a/net/ethernet/eth.c +++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ int eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, unsigned short type, const void *daddr, const void *saddr, unsigned int len) { - struct ethhdr *eth = (struct ethhdr *)skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN); + struct ethhdr *eth = skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN); if (type != ETH_P_802_3 && type != ETH_P_802_2) eth->h_proto = htons(type); -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151