Commit 8e0aa1ff authored by Nathan Chancellor's avatar Nathan Chancellor Committed by Jakub Kicinski

net: ethernet: renesas: Fix return type of rswitch_start_xmit()

With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG),
indirect call targets are validated against the expected function
pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate
ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time,
which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed. A
proposed warning in clang aims to catch these at compile time, which
reveals:

  drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/rswitch.c:1533:20: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'netdev_tx_t (*)(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' (aka 'enum netdev_tx (*)(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)') with an expression of type 'int (struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
          .ndo_start_xmit = rswitch_start_xmit,
                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1 error generated.

->ndo_start_xmit() in 'struct net_device_ops' expects a return type of
'netdev_tx_t', not 'int'. Adjust the return type of rswitch_start_xmit()
to match the prototype's to resolve the warning and CFI failure.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1750Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221103220032.2142122-1-nathan@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 552acbf5
......@@ -1390,7 +1390,7 @@ static int rswitch_stop(struct net_device *ndev)
return 0;
};
static int rswitch_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
static netdev_tx_t rswitch_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
{
struct rswitch_device *rdev = netdev_priv(ndev);
struct rswitch_gwca_queue *gq = rdev->tx_queue;
......
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