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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2017-07-05T19:31:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-05T19:31:59+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Reasonably busy this cycle, but perhaps not as busy as in the 4.12
  merge window:

   1) Several optimizations for UDP processing under high load from
      Paolo Abeni.

   2) Support pacing internally in TCP when using the sch_fq packet
      scheduler for this is not practical. From Eric Dumazet.

   3) Support mutliple filter chains per qdisc, from Jiri Pirko.

   4) Move to 1ms TCP timestamp clock, from Eric Dumazet.

   5) Add batch dequeueing to vhost_net, from Jason Wang.

   6) Flesh out more completely SCTP checksum offload support, from
      Davide Caratti.

   7) More plumbing of extended netlink ACKs, from David Ahern, Pablo
      Neira Ayuso, and Matthias Schiffer.

   8) Add devlink support to nfp driver, from Simon Horman.

   9) Add RTM_F_FIB_MATCH flag to RTM_GETROUTE queries, from Roopa
      Prabhu.

  10) Add stack depth tracking to BPF verifier and use this information
      in the various eBPF JITs. From Alexei Starovoitov.

  11) Support XDP on qed device VFs, from Yuval Mintz.

  12) Introduce BPF PROG ID for better introspection of installed BPF
      programs. From Martin KaFai Lau.

  13) Add bpf_set_hash helper for TC bpf programs, from Daniel Borkmann.

  14) For loads, allow narrower accesses in bpf verifier checking, from
      Yonghong Song.

  15) Support MIPS in the BPF selftests and samples infrastructure, the
      MIPS eBPF JIT will be merged in via the MIPS GIT tree. From David
      Daney.

  16) Support kernel based TLS, from Dave Watson and others.

  17) Remove completely DST garbage collection, from Wei Wang.

  18) Allow installing TCP MD5 rules using prefixes, from Ivan
      Delalande.

  19) Add XDP support to Intel i40e driver, from Björn Töpel

  20) Add support for TC flower offload in nfp driver, from Simon
      Horman, Pieter Jansen van Vuuren, Benjamin LaHaise, Jakub
      Kicinski, and Bert van Leeuwen.

  21) IPSEC offloading support in mlx5, from Ilan Tayari.

  22) Add HW PTP support to macb driver, from Rafal Ozieblo.

  23) Networking refcount_t conversions, From Elena Reshetova.

  24) Add sock_ops support to BPF, from Lawrence Brako. This is useful
      for tuning the TCP sockopt settings of a group of applications,
      currently via CGROUPs"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1899 commits)
  net: phy: dp83867: add workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  dt-bindings: phy: dp83867: provide a workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  cxgb4: Support for get_ts_info ethtool method
  cxgb4: Add PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) support
  cxgb4: time stamping interface for PTP
  nfp: default to chained metadata prepend format
  nfp: remove legacy MAC address lookup
  nfp: improve order of interfaces in breakout mode
  net: macb: remove extraneous return when MACB_EXT_DESC is defined
  bpf: add missing break in for the TCP_BPF_SNDCWND_CLAMP case
  bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file
  mpls: fix rtm policy in mpls_getroute
  net, ax25: convert ax25_cb.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_route.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_uid_assoc.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_ep_common.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_transport.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_chunk.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_datamsg.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_auth_bytes.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ...
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<pre>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Reasonably busy this cycle, but perhaps not as busy as in the 4.12
  merge window:

   1) Several optimizations for UDP processing under high load from
      Paolo Abeni.

   2) Support pacing internally in TCP when using the sch_fq packet
      scheduler for this is not practical. From Eric Dumazet.

   3) Support mutliple filter chains per qdisc, from Jiri Pirko.

   4) Move to 1ms TCP timestamp clock, from Eric Dumazet.

   5) Add batch dequeueing to vhost_net, from Jason Wang.

   6) Flesh out more completely SCTP checksum offload support, from
      Davide Caratti.

   7) More plumbing of extended netlink ACKs, from David Ahern, Pablo
      Neira Ayuso, and Matthias Schiffer.

   8) Add devlink support to nfp driver, from Simon Horman.

   9) Add RTM_F_FIB_MATCH flag to RTM_GETROUTE queries, from Roopa
      Prabhu.

  10) Add stack depth tracking to BPF verifier and use this information
      in the various eBPF JITs. From Alexei Starovoitov.

  11) Support XDP on qed device VFs, from Yuval Mintz.

  12) Introduce BPF PROG ID for better introspection of installed BPF
      programs. From Martin KaFai Lau.

  13) Add bpf_set_hash helper for TC bpf programs, from Daniel Borkmann.

  14) For loads, allow narrower accesses in bpf verifier checking, from
      Yonghong Song.

  15) Support MIPS in the BPF selftests and samples infrastructure, the
      MIPS eBPF JIT will be merged in via the MIPS GIT tree. From David
      Daney.

  16) Support kernel based TLS, from Dave Watson and others.

  17) Remove completely DST garbage collection, from Wei Wang.

  18) Allow installing TCP MD5 rules using prefixes, from Ivan
      Delalande.

  19) Add XDP support to Intel i40e driver, from Björn Töpel

  20) Add support for TC flower offload in nfp driver, from Simon
      Horman, Pieter Jansen van Vuuren, Benjamin LaHaise, Jakub
      Kicinski, and Bert van Leeuwen.

  21) IPSEC offloading support in mlx5, from Ilan Tayari.

  22) Add HW PTP support to macb driver, from Rafal Ozieblo.

  23) Networking refcount_t conversions, From Elena Reshetova.

  24) Add sock_ops support to BPF, from Lawrence Brako. This is useful
      for tuning the TCP sockopt settings of a group of applications,
      currently via CGROUPs"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1899 commits)
  net: phy: dp83867: add workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  dt-bindings: phy: dp83867: provide a workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  cxgb4: Support for get_ts_info ethtool method
  cxgb4: Add PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) support
  cxgb4: time stamping interface for PTP
  nfp: default to chained metadata prepend format
  nfp: remove legacy MAC address lookup
  nfp: improve order of interfaces in breakout mode
  net: macb: remove extraneous return when MACB_EXT_DESC is defined
  bpf: add missing break in for the TCP_BPF_SNDCWND_CLAMP case
  bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file
  mpls: fix rtm policy in mpls_getroute
  net, ax25: convert ax25_cb.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_route.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_uid_assoc.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_ep_common.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_transport.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_chunk.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_datamsg.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_auth_bytes.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf, net: add skb_mac_header_len helper</title>
<updated>2017-07-03T09:22:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-02T00:13:25+00:00</published>
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Add a small skb_mac_header_len() helper similarly as the
skb_network_header_len() we have and replace open coded
places in BPF's bpf_skb_change_proto() helper. Will also
be used in upcoming work.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Add a small skb_mac_header_len() helper similarly as the
skb_network_header_len() we have and replace open coded
places in BPF's bpf_skb_change_proto() helper. Will also
be used in upcoming work.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: convert sk_buff_fclones.fclone_ref from atomic_t to refcount_t</title>
<updated>2017-07-01T14:39:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Reshetova, Elena</name>
<email>elena.reshetova@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-30T10:07:59+00:00</published>
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refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: convert sk_buff.users from atomic_t to refcount_t</title>
<updated>2017-07-01T14:39:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Reshetova, Elena</name>
<email>elena.reshetova@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-30T10:07:58+00:00</published>
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refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: convert nf_bridge_info.use from atomic_t to refcount_t</title>
<updated>2017-07-01T14:39:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Reshetova, Elena</name>
<email>elena.reshetova@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-30T10:07:57+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be
used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as
a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental
refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.

Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova &lt;elena.reshetova@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand &lt;ishkamiel@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dwindsor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: introduce __skb_put_[zero, data, u8]</title>
<updated>2017-06-20T17:30:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>yuan linyu</name>
<email>Linyu.Yuan@alcatel-sbell.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-18T14:48:17+00:00</published>
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follow Johannes Berg, semantic patch file as below,
@@
identifier p, p2;
expression len;
expression skb;
type t, t2;
@@
(
-p = __skb_put(skb, len);
+p = __skb_put_zero(skb, len);
|
-p = (t)__skb_put(skb, len);
+p = __skb_put_zero(skb, len);
)
... when != p
(
p2 = (t2)p;
-memset(p2, 0, len);
|
-memset(p, 0, len);
)

@@
identifier p;
expression len;
expression skb;
type t;
@@
(
-t p = __skb_put(skb, len);
+t p = __skb_put_zero(skb, len);
)
... when != p
(
-memset(p, 0, len);
)

@@
type t, t2;
identifier p, p2;
expression skb;
@@
t *p;
...
(
-p = __skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
+p = __skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
|
-p = (t *)__skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
+p = __skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
)
... when != p
(
p2 = (t2)p;
-memset(p2, 0, sizeof(*p));
|
-memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
)

@@
expression skb, len;
@@
-memset(__skb_put(skb, len), 0, len);
+__skb_put_zero(skb, len);

@@
expression skb, len, data;
@@
-memcpy(__skb_put(skb, len), data, len);
+__skb_put_data(skb, data, len);

@@
expression SKB, C, S;
typedef u8;
identifier fn = {__skb_put};
fresh identifier fn2 = fn ## "_u8";
@@
- *(u8 *)fn(SKB, S) = C;
+ fn2(SKB, C);

Signed-off-by: yuan linyu &lt;Linyu.Yuan@alcatel-sbell.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
follow Johannes Berg, semantic patch file as below,
@@
identifier p, p2;
expression len;
expression skb;
type t, t2;
@@
(
-p = __skb_put(skb, len);
+p = __skb_put_zero(skb, len);
|
-p = (t)__skb_put(skb, len);
+p = __skb_put_zero(skb, len);
)
... when != p
(
p2 = (t2)p;
-memset(p2, 0, len);
|
-memset(p, 0, len);
)

@@
identifier p;
expression len;
expression skb;
type t;
@@
(
-t p = __skb_put(skb, len);
+t p = __skb_put_zero(skb, len);
)
... when != p
(
-memset(p, 0, len);
)

@@
type t, t2;
identifier p, p2;
expression skb;
@@
t *p;
...
(
-p = __skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
+p = __skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
|
-p = (t *)__skb_put(skb, sizeof(t));
+p = __skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(t));
)
... when != p
(
p2 = (t2)p;
-memset(p2, 0, sizeof(*p));
|
-memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
)

@@
expression skb, len;
@@
-memset(__skb_put(skb, len), 0, len);
+__skb_put_zero(skb, len);

@@
expression skb, len, data;
@@
-memcpy(__skb_put(skb, len), data, len);
+__skb_put_data(skb, data, len);

@@
expression SKB, C, S;
typedef u8;
identifier fn = {__skb_put};
fresh identifier fn2 = fn ## "_u8";
@@
- *(u8 *)fn(SKB, S) = C;
+ fn2(SKB, C);

Signed-off-by: yuan linyu &lt;Linyu.Yuan@alcatel-sbell.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: add and use skb_put_u8()</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:24+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Joe and Bjørn suggested that it'd be nicer to not have the
cast in the fairly common case of doing
	*(u8 *)skb_put(skb, 1) = c;

Add skb_put_u8() for this case, and use it across the code,
using the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, C, S;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = {skb_put};
    fresh identifier fn2 = fn ## "_u8";
    @@
    - *(u8 *)fn(SKB, S) = C;
    + fn2(SKB, C);

Note that due to the "S", the spatch isn't perfect, it should
have checked that S is 1, but there's also places that use a
sizeof expression like sizeof(var) or sizeof(u8) etc. Turns
out that nobody ever did something like
	*(u8 *)skb_put(skb, 2) = c;

which would be wrong anyway since the second byte wouldn't be
initialized.

Suggested-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Bjørn Mork &lt;bjorn@mork.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Joe and Bjørn suggested that it'd be nicer to not have the
cast in the fairly common case of doing
	*(u8 *)skb_put(skb, 1) = c;

Add skb_put_u8() for this case, and use it across the code,
using the following spatch:

    @@
    expression SKB, C, S;
    typedef u8;
    identifier fn = {skb_put};
    fresh identifier fn2 = fn ## "_u8";
    @@
    - *(u8 *)fn(SKB, S) = C;
    + fn2(SKB, C);

Note that due to the "S", the spatch isn't perfect, it should
have checked that S is 1, but there's also places that use a
sizeof expression like sizeof(var) or sizeof(u8) etc. Turns
out that nobody ever did something like
	*(u8 *)skb_put(skb, 2) = c;

which would be wrong anyway since the second byte wouldn't be
initialized.

Suggested-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Bjørn Mork &lt;bjorn@mork.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_push &amp; __skb_push return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:23+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
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 &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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 &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_pull &amp; friends return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=af72868b9070d1b843c829f0d0d0b22c04a20815'/>
<id>af72868b9070d1b843c829f0d0d0b22c04a20815</id>
<content type='text'>
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_pull,
            __skb_pull,
            skb_pull_inline,
            __pskb_pull_tail,
            __pskb_pull,
            pskb_pull
    };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = {
            skb_pull,
            __skb_pull,
            skb_pull_inline,
            __pskb_pull_tail,
            __pskb_pull,
            pskb_pull
    };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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_pull,
            __skb_pull,
            skb_pull_inline,
            __pskb_pull_tail,
            __pskb_pull,
            pskb_pull
    };
    @@
    - *(fn(SKB, LEN))
    + *(u8 *)fn(SKB, LEN)

    @@
    expression E, SKB, LEN;
    identifier fn = {
            skb_pull,
            __skb_pull,
            skb_pull_inline,
            __pskb_pull_tail,
            __pskb_pull,
            pskb_pull
    };
    type T;
    @@
    - E = ((T *)(fn(SKB, LEN)))
    + E = fn(SKB, LEN)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>networking: make skb_put &amp; friends return void pointers</title>
<updated>2017-06-16T15:48:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-16T12:29:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4df864c1d9afb46e2461a9f808d9f11a42d31bad'/>
<id>4df864c1d9afb46e2461a9f808d9f11a42d31bad</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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 &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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