netlink: introduce typedef for filter function

Make the code using filter function a bit nicer by consolidating the
filter function arguments using typedef.

Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>

Author: Jiri Pirko

drivers/connector/connector.c

@@ -59,9 +59,8 @@ static int cn_already_initialized;
  * both, or if both are zero then the group is looked up and sent there.
  */
 int cn_netlink_send_mult(struct cn_msg *msg, u16 len, u32 portid, u32 __group,
-	gfp_t gfp_mask,
-	int (*filter)(struct sock *dsk, struct sk_buff *skb, void *data),
-	void *filter_data)
+			 gfp_t gfp_mask, netlink_filter_fn filter,
+			 void *filter_data)
 {
 	struct cn_callback_entry *__cbq;
 	unsigned int size;

include/linux/connector.h

@@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ void cn_del_callback(const struct cb_id *id);
  */
 int cn_netlink_send_mult(struct cn_msg *msg, u16 len, u32 portid,
 			 u32 group, gfp_t gfp_mask,
-			 int (*filter)(struct sock *dsk, struct sk_buff *skb,
-				       void *data),
+			 netlink_filter_fn filter,
 			 void *filter_data);
 
 /**

include/linux/netlink.h

@@ -228,10 +228,12 @@ bool netlink_strict_get_check(struct sk_buff *skb);
 int netlink_unicast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 portid, int nonblock);
 int netlink_broadcast(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 portid,
 		      __u32 group, gfp_t allocation);
+
+typedef int (*netlink_filter_fn)(struct sock *dsk, struct sk_buff *skb, void *data);
+
 int netlink_broadcast_filtered(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			       __u32 portid, __u32 group, gfp_t allocation,
-			       int (*filter)(struct sock *dsk,
-					     struct sk_buff *skb, void *data),
+			       netlink_filter_fn filter,
 			       void *filter_data);
 int netlink_set_err(struct sock *ssk, __u32 portid, __u32 group, int code);
 int netlink_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);

net/netlink/af_netlink.c

@@ -1519,8 +1519,7 @@ static void do_one_broadcast(struct sock *sk,
 int netlink_broadcast_filtered(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			       u32 portid,
 			       u32 group, gfp_t allocation,
-			       int (*filter)(struct sock *dsk,
-					     struct sk_buff *skb, void *data),
+			       netlink_filter_fn filter,
 			       void *filter_data)
 {
 	struct net *net = sock_net(ssk);