From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: get rid of some pointless casts to sockaddr Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120311.194904.1190726266951277668.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1331506310-16613-1-git-send-email-zenczykowski@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: maze@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: zenczykowski@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:43176 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750770Ab2CLCtI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:49:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1331506310-16613-1-git-send-email-zenczykowski@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: =46rom: Maciej =AFenczykowski Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:51:50 -0700 > From: Maciej =AFenczykowski >=20 > The following 4 functions: > move_addr_to_kernel > move_addr_to_user > verify_iovec > verify_compat_iovec > are always effectively called with a sockaddr_storage. >=20 > Make this explicit by changing their signature. >=20 > This removes a large number of casts from sockaddr_storage to sockadd= r. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Maciej =AFenczykowski Applied, thanks.