commit d58ff35122847a83ba55394e2ae3a1527b6febf5
author Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Fri Jun 16 14:29:23 2017 +0200
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Fri Jun 16 11:48:40 2017 -0400
tree e1ecf758e86519922c403f1aa88f19ef25a554ad
parent af72868b9070d1b843c829f0d0d0b22c04a20815

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

net/core/skbuff.c

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 9a1639f..f75897a 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -1461,7 +1461,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_put);
  *	start. If this would exceed the total buffer headroom the kernel will
  *	panic. A pointer to the first byte of the extra data is returned.
  */
-unsigned char *skb_push(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
+void *skb_push(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
 {
 	skb->data -= len;
 	skb->len  += len;