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Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:21:36 +0200
From:   Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
To:     yunchuan <yunchuan@nfschina.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 03/10] net: ppp: Remove unnecessary (void*)
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On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 09:33:30AM +0800, yunchuan wrote:
> On 2023/7/14 17:07, Guillaume Nault wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 02:40:27PM +0800, Su Hui wrote:
> > > From: wuych <yunchuan@nfschina.com>
> > > 
> > > Pointer variables of void * type do not require type cast.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: wuych <yunchuan@nfschina.com>
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 4 ++--
> > >   drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c  | 4 ++--
> > >   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
> > 
> > While there, you might want to also remove the useless casts in
> > net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c and net/atm/pppoatm.c.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks four your reminder! There are about 20 useless casts in net.
> I will remove all of them.

I was specifically pointing at l2tp_ppp.c and pppoatm.c because they
convert the same kind of variable (chan->private) and cound be sqashed
into this commit.

But if you prefer to handle these separately, that's obviously fine too.

> Wu Yunchuan
> 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
> > > index 3b79c603b936..ba8b6bd8233c 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
> > > @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ static int __pppoe_xmit(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > >    ***********************************************************************/
> > >   static int pppoe_xmit(struct ppp_channel *chan, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > >   {
> > > -	struct sock *sk = (struct sock *)chan->private;
> > > +	struct sock *sk = chan->private;
> > >   	return __pppoe_xmit(sk, skb);
> > >   }
> > > @@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ static int pppoe_fill_forward_path(struct net_device_path_ctx *ctx,
> > >   				   struct net_device_path *path,
> > >   				   const struct ppp_channel *chan)
> > >   {
> > > -	struct sock *sk = (struct sock *)chan->private;
> > > +	struct sock *sk = chan->private;
> > >   	struct pppox_sock *po = pppox_sk(sk);
> > >   	struct net_device *dev = po->pppoe_dev;
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c b/drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c
> > > index 32183f24e63f..6b3d3df99549 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c
> > > @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static struct rtable *pptp_route_output(struct pppox_sock *po,
> > >   static int pptp_xmit(struct ppp_channel *chan, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > >   {
> > > -	struct sock *sk = (struct sock *) chan->private;
> > > +	struct sock *sk = chan->private;
> > >   	struct pppox_sock *po = pppox_sk(sk);
> > >   	struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
> > >   	struct pptp_opt *opt = &po->proto.pptp;
> > > @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ static int pptp_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int kern)
> > >   static int pptp_ppp_ioctl(struct ppp_channel *chan, unsigned int cmd,
> > >   	unsigned long arg)
> > >   {
> > > -	struct sock *sk = (struct sock *) chan->private;
> > > +	struct sock *sk = chan->private;
> > >   	struct pppox_sock *po = pppox_sk(sk);
> > >   	struct pptp_opt *opt = &po->proto.pptp;
> > >   	void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
> > > -- 
> > > 2.30.2
> > > 
> > > 
>