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Unsafe type assertion #772

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In line 76 value may have type different from '*bool'.

The type assertion assumes that value is not zero and that value stores a value of type *bool, otherwise the command will cause panic. If value is checked for zero in line 73, then apparently a check for the *bool type is performed in line 76, but such a check is incorrect, because it will cause panic if the value type does not match the *bool type.

I think it would be safer to use the following construction:
if _, ok :=value.(*bool); ok { ... }

Found by Linux Verification Center (portal.linuxtesting.ru) with SVACE.
Author A. Burke.

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