2022-09-12 22:14:39

by Dexuan Cui

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Subject: RE: [PATCH] net: mana: Fix return type of mana_start_xmit

> From: Nathan Huckleberry <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2022 2:44 PM
> ...
> 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 mana_start_xmit should be changed from int to
> netdev_tx_t.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
> Link: ...
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Dexuan Cui <[email protected]>

Thanks for the fix!