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 <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index c4d2c1f..0baa7f2 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_pad);
  *	returned.
  */
 
-unsigned char *pskb_put(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff *tail, int len)
+void *pskb_put(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff *tail, int len)
 {
 	if (tail != skb) {
 		skb->data_len += len;
@@ -1440,9 +1440,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pskb_put);
  *	exceed the total buffer size the kernel will panic. A pointer to the
  *	first byte of the extra data is returned.
  */
-unsigned char *skb_put(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
+void *skb_put(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
 {
-	unsigned char *tmp = skb_tail_pointer(skb);
+	void *tmp = skb_tail_pointer(skb);
 	SKB_LINEAR_ASSERT(skb);
 	skb->tail += len;
 	skb->len  += len;