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    networking: make skb_push & __skb_push return void pointers · d58ff351
    Johannes Berg authored
    
    
    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: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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