From: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:47:06 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: auth-pam: fix discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.1~32
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2fd42e6d1da93655d97aeb32f549d684728d3fbd;p=thirdparty%2Fopenvpn.git

auth-pam: fix discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type

strstr now returns const char*.

Change-Id: I632368451923116e0a169ddb5b6e86a8f8486afc
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.com>
Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/1543
Message-Id: <20260218214712.27119-1-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg35728.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
(cherry picked from commit eeaedd13628e27225c8893c2d8bdf5381fc33ba9)
---

diff --git a/src/plugins/auth-pam/utils.c b/src/plugins/auth-pam/utils.c
index d7b544a12..a4d2d0b07 100644
--- a/src/plugins/auth-pam/utils.c
+++ b/src/plugins/auth-pam/utils.c
@@ -66,12 +66,11 @@ searchandreplace(const char *tosearch, const char *searchfor, const char *replac
     /* state: all parameters are valid */
 
     const char *searching = tosearch;
-    char *scratch;
 
     char temp[templen + 1];
     temp[0] = 0;
 
-    scratch = strstr(searching, searchfor);
+    const char *scratch = strstr(searching, searchfor);
     if (!scratch)
     {
         return strdup(tosearch);