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, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 5af5385a0e72..454ea37dddbb 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1893,11 +1893,11 @@ static inline void skb_set_tail_pointer(struct sk_buff *skb, const int offset)
 /*
  *	Add data to an sk_buff
  */
-unsigned char *pskb_put(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff *tail, int len);
-unsigned char *skb_put(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len);
-static inline unsigned char *__skb_put(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
+void *pskb_put(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff *tail, int len);
+void *skb_put(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len);
+static inline 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;