net: ethernet: ti: Fix return type of netcp_ndo_start_xmit()
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Wed, 2 Nov 2022 16:09:33 +0000 (09:09 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:14:41 +0000 (13:14 +0100)
commita413ebb6049edd881c6427cfa25a7efddd6a4f74
treedad806cbcf8229e79971f0bb35782a91c1d71e82
parent5d3f4478d22b2cb1810f6fe0f797411e9d87b3e5
net: ethernet: ti: Fix return type of netcp_ndo_start_xmit()

[ Upstream commit 63fe6ff674a96cfcfc0fa8df1051a27aa31c70b4 ]

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/ti/netcp_core.c:1944:21: 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         = netcp_ndo_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
netcp_ndo_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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102160933.1601260-1-nathan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c