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Date:   Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:24:01 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] netlink: gc useless variable in nlmsg_attrdata()

Kernel permits pointer arithmetic on "void*" so might as well use it
without casts back and forth.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 include/net/netlink.h |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/net/netlink.h
+++ b/include/net/netlink.h
@@ -587,8 +587,7 @@ static inline int nlmsg_len(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 static inline struct nlattr *nlmsg_attrdata(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 					    int hdrlen)
 {
-	unsigned char *data = nlmsg_data(nlh);
-	return (struct nlattr *) (data + NLMSG_ALIGN(hdrlen));
+	return nlmsg_data(nlh) + NLMSG_ALIGN(hdrlen);
 }
 
 /**