netdev - Re: [RFC] skbuff: introduce skb_put

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Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 13:01:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        johannes.berg@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] skbuff: introduce skb_put_zero()

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 09:07:47 +0200

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> 
> This pattern was introduced a number of times in mac80211 just now,
> and since it's present in a number of other places it makes sense
> to add a little helper for it.
> 
> The transformations of all code were done with the following spatch:
> 
> @@
> identifier p;
> expression len;
> expression skb;
> @@
> -p = skb_put(skb, len);
> -memset(p, 0, len);
> +p = skb_put_zero(skb, len);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> ---
> NB: the patch won't apply to net-next because a few of the mac80211
>     users don't exist there yet

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

No objections, feel free to push this in via your mac80211 tree.