netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: gc useless variable in nlmsg

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Date:   Fri, 13 Aug 2021 08:27:30 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netlink: gc useless variable in nlmsg_attrdata()

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 03:05:52PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:24:01 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > Kernel permits pointer arithmetic on "void*" so might as well use it
> > without casts back and forth.
> 
> But why change existing code? It's perfectly fine, right?

It is harder to read (marginally of course).

> > --- 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);
> >  }
> >  
> >  /**
>