um: net: Fix return type of uml_net_start_xmit()
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Wed, 6 Dec 2023 16:49:46 +0000 (09:49 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 5 Feb 2024 20:14:31 +0000 (20:14 +0000)
commit857710e1b11da7e32cc17cdb4eeb2c40db1dff72
tree19855e688ee1c80fe8113c8262c2bccdee09c17b
parenta4378abcbb8c42a8f54db7759beac55ea13c1b7f
um: net: Fix return type of uml_net_start_xmit()

[ Upstream commit 7d748f60a4b82b50bf25fad1bd42d33f049f76aa ]

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
warning in clang aims to catch these at compile time, which reveals:

  arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c:353:21: warning: 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 *)' [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
    353 |         .ndo_start_xmit         = uml_net_start_xmit,
        |                                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1 warning generated.

->ndo_start_xmit() in 'struct net_device_ops' expects a return type of
'netdev_tx_t', not 'int'. Adjust the return type of uml_net_start_xmit()
to match the prototype's to resolve the warning. While UML does not
currently implement support for kCFI, it could in the future, which
means this warning becomes a fatal CFI failure at run time.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202310031340.v1vPh207-lkp@intel.com/
Acked-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c