* [PATCH] selinux: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless
@ 2011-11-17 22:43 Thomas Meyer
2011-12-19 0:24 ` James Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Meyer @ 2011-11-17 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-security-module, linux-kernel
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
---
diff -u -p a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
--- a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c 2011-11-07 19:38:36.047349083 +0100
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c 2011-11-08 09:16:49.914488441 +0100
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ void cond_policydb_destroy(struct policy
int cond_init_bool_indexes(struct policydb *p)
{
kfree(p->bool_val_to_struct);
- p->bool_val_to_struct = (struct cond_bool_datum **)
+ p->bool_val_to_struct =
kmalloc(p->p_bools.nprim * sizeof(struct cond_bool_datum *), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p->bool_val_to_struct)
return -ENOMEM;
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