Re: [PATCH 2/5] selinux: remove pointless cast in selinux_inode_setsecurity()

[Stephen Smalley]

On 09/25/2015 06:34 PM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> security_context_to_sid() expects a const char* argument, so there's
> no point in casting away the const qualifier of value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>   security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index fd50cd5ac2ec..5edb57df86f8 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -3162,7 +3162,7 @@ static int selinux_inode_setsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
>   	if (!value || !size)
>   		return -EACCES;
>
> -	rc = security_context_to_sid((void *)value, size, &newsid, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	rc = security_context_to_sid(value, size, &newsid, GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (rc)
>   		return rc;

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