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Informational 15 Bitcoin

net: remove unnecessary casts in socket operations

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Authored by Matthew Zipkin

85/100 · Strong
net: remove unnecessary casts in socket operations

These methods in the Sock class wrap corresponding syscalls,
accepting void* arguments and casting to char* internally, which is
needed for Windows support and ignored on other platforms because
the syscall itself accepts void*:

Send()
Recv()
GetSockOpt()
SetSockOpt()
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a routine code cleanup in Bitcoin Core's networking layer. It removes a platform-specific type alias (sockopt_arg_type) and replaces it with direct void*/char* casts where needed. The behavior of the program is unchanged; there is no security fix or vulnerability here.

Recommended action

No security action needed. Treat as normal maintenance/refactoring commit.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 10/10
Evidence quality 5/5
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