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 --- drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/cisco') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c b/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c index 1b7e125..4623155 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c @@ -3330,7 +3330,7 @@ static void airo_handle_rx(struct airo_info *ai) } skb_reserve(skb, 2); /* This way the IP header is aligned */ - buffer = (__le16 *) skb_put(skb, len + hdrlen); + buffer = skb_put(skb, len + hdrlen); if (test_bit(FLAG_802_11, &ai->flags)) { buffer[0] = fc; bap_read(ai, buffer + 1, hdrlen - 2, BAP0); @@ -3734,7 +3734,7 @@ static void mpi_receive_802_11(struct airo_info *ai) ai->dev->stats.rx_dropped++; goto badrx; } - buffer = (u16*)skb_put (skb, len + hdrlen); + buffer = skb_put(skb, len + hdrlen); memcpy ((char *)buffer, ptr, hdrlen); ptr += hdrlen; if (hdrlen == 24) -- cgit v1.1