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Date:   Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:00:27 -0700
From:   Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
To:     Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     Linux Network Development Mailing List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        BPF Mailing List <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next] net-veth: add type safety to veth_xdp_to_ptr() and veth_ptr_to_xdp()

From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>

This reduces likelihood of incorrect use.

Test: builds
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
---
 drivers/net/veth.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
index e56cd562a664..b80cbffeb88e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/veth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
@@ -234,14 +234,14 @@ static bool veth_is_xdp_frame(void *ptr)
 	return (unsigned long)ptr & VETH_XDP_FLAG;
 }
 
-static void *veth_ptr_to_xdp(void *ptr)
+static struct xdp_frame *veth_ptr_to_xdp(void *ptr)
 {
 	return (void *)((unsigned long)ptr & ~VETH_XDP_FLAG);
 }
 
-static void *veth_xdp_to_ptr(void *ptr)
+static void *veth_xdp_to_ptr(struct xdp_frame *xdp)
 {
-	return (void *)((unsigned long)ptr | VETH_XDP_FLAG);
+	return (void *)((unsigned long)xdp | VETH_XDP_FLAG);
 }
 
 static void veth_ptr_free(void *ptr)
-- 
2.28.0.220.ged08abb693-goog