linux-kernel - [PATCH] selinux: Remove unnecessary check of array base in selinux_set

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:26:52 -0700
From:   Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
To:     Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
        "Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:     selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Grant Grundler <grundler@...omium.org>,
        Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>,
        Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] selinux: Remove unnecessary check of array base in selinux_set_mapping()

'perms' will never be NULL since it isn't a plain pointer but an array
of u32 values.

This fixes the following warning when building with clang:

security/selinux/ss/services.c:158:16: error: address of array
'p_in->perms' will always evaluate to 'true'
[-Werror,-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
                while (p_in->perms && p_in->perms[k]) {

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
---
 security/selinux/ss/services.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
index 082b20c78363..2f20b5f974f4 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static int selinux_set_mapping(struct policydb *pol,
 		}
 
 		k = 0;
-		while (p_in->perms && p_in->perms[k]) {
+		while (p_in->perms[k]) {
 			/* An empty permission string skips ahead */
 			if (!*p_in->perms[k]) {
 				k++;
-- 
2.12.0.367.g23dc2f6d3c-goog