2022-09-13 01:03:12

by Sergey Ryazanov

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: wwan: iosm: Fix return type of ipc_wwan_link_transmit

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 12:45 AM Nathan Huckleberry <[email protected]> wrote:
> The ndo_start_xmit field in net_device_ops is expected to be of type
> netdev_tx_t (*ndo_start_xmit)(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev).
>
> The mismatched return type breaks forward edge kCFI since the underlying
> function definition does not match the function hook definition.
>
> The return type of ipc_wwan_link_transmit should be changed from int to
> netdev_tx_t.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1703
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Sergey Ryazanov <[email protected]>