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>
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 0baa7f2..9a1639f 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;