[NETLINK]: Avoid pointer in netlink_run_queue

I was looking at Patrick's fix to inet_diag and it occured
to me that we're using a pointer argument to return values
unnecessarily in netlink_run_queue.  Changing it to return
the value will allow the compiler to generate better code
since the value won't have to be memory-backed.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index dc9f8c2ab1d5..c68888b25756 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1629,7 +1629,7 @@ skip:
 /**
  * nelink_run_queue - Process netlink receive queue.
  * @sk: Netlink socket containing the queue
- * @qlen: Place to store queue length upon entry
+ * @qlen: Initial queue length
  * @cb: Callback function invoked for each netlink message found
  *
  * Processes as much as there was in the queue upon entry and invokes
@@ -1639,35 +1639,37 @@ skip:
  * returns with a qlen != 0.
  *
  * qlen must be initialized to 0 before the initial entry, afterwards
- * the function may be called repeatedly until qlen reaches 0.
+ * the function may be called repeatedly until the returned qlen is 0.
  *
  * The callback function may return -EINTR to signal that processing
  * of netlink messages shall be interrupted. In this case the message
  * currently being processed will NOT be requeued onto the receive
  * queue.
  */
-void netlink_run_queue(struct sock *sk, unsigned int *qlen,
-                       int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *, struct nlmsghdr *))
+unsigned int netlink_run_queue(struct sock *sk, unsigned int qlen,
+                               int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *, struct nlmsghdr *))
 {
         struct sk_buff *skb;
 
-        if (!*qlen || *qlen > skb_queue_len(&sk->sk_receive_queue))
-                *qlen = skb_queue_len(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
+        if (!qlen || qlen > skb_queue_len(&sk->sk_receive_queue))
+                qlen = skb_queue_len(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
 
-        for (; *qlen; (*qlen)--) {
+        for (; qlen; qlen--) {
                 skb = skb_dequeue(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
                 if (netlink_rcv_skb(skb, cb)) {
                         if (skb->len)
                                 skb_queue_head(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
                         else {
                                 kfree_skb(skb);
-                                (*qlen)--;
+                                qlen--;
                         }
                         break;
                 }
 
                 kfree_skb(skb);
         }
+
+        return qlen;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index af8fe26815fa..07ef5d204a0f 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static void genl_rcv(struct sock *sk, int len)
         do {
                 if (genl_trylock())
                         return;
-                netlink_run_queue(sk, &qlen, genl_rcv_msg);
+                qlen = netlink_run_queue(sk, qlen, genl_rcv_msg);
                 genl_unlock();
         } while (qlen && genl_sock && genl_sock->sk_receive_queue.qlen);
 }