netdev - [PATCH RFC bpf-next 3/9] vlan: Make vlan_remove

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Message-Id: <20250929-skb-meta-rx-path-v1-3-de700a7ab1cb@cloudflare.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:09:08 +0200
From: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>
To: bpf@...r.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...udflare.com
Subject: [PATCH RFC bpf-next 3/9] vlan: Make vlan_remove_tag return nothing

All callers ignore the return value.

Prepare to reorder memmove() after skb_pull() which is a common pattern.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>
---
 include/linux/if_vlan.h | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/if_vlan.h b/include/linux/if_vlan.h
index 15e01935d3fa..afa5cc61a0fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_vlan.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_vlan.h
@@ -731,10 +731,8 @@ static inline void vlan_set_encap_proto(struct sk_buff *skb,
  *
  * Expects the skb to contain a VLAN tag in the payload, and to have skb->data
  * pointing at the MAC header.
- *
- * Returns: a new pointer to skb->data, or NULL on failure to pull.
  */
-static inline void *vlan_remove_tag(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 *vlan_tci)
+static inline void vlan_remove_tag(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 *vlan_tci)
 {
 	struct vlan_hdr *vhdr = (struct vlan_hdr *)(skb->data + ETH_HLEN);
 
@@ -742,7 +740,7 @@ static inline void *vlan_remove_tag(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 *vlan_tci)
 
 	memmove(skb->data + VLAN_HLEN, skb->data, 2 * ETH_ALEN);
 	vlan_set_encap_proto(skb, vhdr);
-	return __skb_pull(skb, VLAN_HLEN);
+	__skb_pull(skb, VLAN_HLEN);
 }
 
 /**

-- 
2.43.0