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Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2022 12:16:57 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
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        Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: renesas: Fix return type of
 rswitch_start_xmit()
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 03:00:32PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> 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/1750
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook