netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: caif: use skb helpers instead of open-coding them

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Date:   Sun, 17 Feb 2019 11:02:29 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jannh@...gle.com
Cc:     dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: caif: use skb helpers instead of
 open-coding them

From: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 22:35:47 +0100

> Use existing skb_put_data() and skb_trim() instead of open-coding them,
> with the skb_put_data() first so that logically, `skb` still contains the
> data to be copied in its data..tail area when skb_put_data() reads it.
> This change on its own is a cleanup, and it is also necessary for potential
> future integration of skbuffs with things like KASAN.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.

Feel free to send me a MAINTAINERS patch that either updates the
bouncing email or removes it altogether.  If the listed maintainer
bounces and won't reply when you ask them if they are still
maintaining things it is valid to just remove them.

Thanks.