netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/11] skb_put_zero() used to optimize code

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:38:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     cugyly@....com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/11] skb_put_zero() used to optimize code

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 18:31:48 +0200

> On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 18:29 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>> On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 23:00 +0800, yuan linyu wrote:
>> 
>> > sorry, I do them by hand. 
>> 
>> oh, ok.
>> 
>> This seems to work:
>> 
>> @@
>> identifier p;
>> expression len;
>> expression skb;
>> type t;
>> @@
>> -p = (t)skb_put(skb, len);
>> -memset(p, 0, len);
>> +p = (t)skb_put_zero(skb, len);
> 
> Nope, still didn't find everything - not the batman and atm cases for
> example. But still a few more, I think that you didn't find, e.g. in
> mac80211.
> 
> Anyway - I think none of this is really critical.

What do you think about Stephen Hemminger's feedback to make skb_put_zero()
return "void *".  It will avoid a lot of casts and make the conversions
look nicer.

I'll also defer on this patch series until we have the spatch thing
which can catch all of them.

Thanks.