The cast used while calling security_sid_to_context() is just wrong. Use the address of the pointer instead. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/selinux/hooks.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c index 996e765b6823..93d2773bfda5 100644 --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c @@ -2886,8 +2886,7 @@ static int selinux_dentry_init_security(struct dentry *dentry, int mode, *xattr_name = XATTR_NAME_SELINUX; cp->id = LSM_ID_SELINUX; - return security_sid_to_context(newsid, (char **)cp->context, - &cp->len); + return security_sid_to_context(newsid, &cp->context, &cp->len); } static int selinux_dentry_create_files_as(struct dentry *dentry, int mode,