hamradio: baycom_epp: Fix return type of baycom_send_packet()
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Wed, 2 Nov 2022 16:06:10 +0000 (09:06 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:14:41 +0000 (13:14 +0100)
commit19bb9e98e1035ac2916eb7d22c80a41ee0924f77
tree1943a179a24549def01eacc8d4dedadb49bfb4ab
parenta413ebb6049edd881c6427cfa25a7efddd6a4f74
hamradio: baycom_epp: Fix return type of baycom_send_packet()

[ Upstream commit c5733e5b15d91ab679646ec3149e192996a27d5d ]

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/hamradio/baycom_epp.c:1119:25: 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      = baycom_send_packet,
                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  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 baycom_send_packet()
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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102160610.1186145-1-nathan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c