netdev - [PATCH] skbuff: make skb_put

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Message-Id: <20170614201720.21070-1-johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:17:20 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH] skbuff: make skb_put_zero() return void

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

It's nicer to return void, since then there's no need to
cast to any structures. Currently none of the users have
a cast, but a number of future conversions do.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 1151b50892d1..01ea64d0783a 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1904,9 +1904,9 @@ static inline unsigned char *__skb_put(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
 	return tmp;
 }
 
-static inline unsigned char *skb_put_zero(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
+static inline void *skb_put_zero(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
 {
-	unsigned char *tmp = skb_put(skb, len);
+	void *tmp = skb_put(skb, len);
 
 	memset(tmp, 0, len);
 
-- 
2.11.0