[PATCH] selinux: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc isuseless

From: Thomas Meyer
Date: Fri Nov 18 2011 - 04:32:46 EST


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

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
---

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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