netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: get rid of some pointless casts to sockaddr

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Message-Id: <20120311.194904.1190726266951277668.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:49:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	zenczykowski@...il.com
Cc:	maze@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: get rid of some pointless casts to sockaddr

From: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:51:50 -0700

> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
> 
> The following 4 functions:
>   move_addr_to_kernel
>   move_addr_to_user
>   verify_iovec
>   verify_compat_iovec
> are always effectively called with a sockaddr_storage.
> 
> Make this explicit by changing their signature.
> 
> This removes a large number of casts from sockaddr_storage to sockaddr.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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