linux-kernel - [PATCH] selinux: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless

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Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] selinux: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is
 useless

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.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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