On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 6:36 AM Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 02:50:46PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > > > > I don't know yet. It's difficult to read the code with 2 layers of macros. > > > > Hence why I asked why you didn't just change the prototypes to be compatible. > > I agree. Kees, since you're changing this anyway please make it > look better not worse. Do you mean I should use the typedefs in the new macros? I'm not aware of a way to use a typedef to declare a function body, so I had to repeat them. I'm open to suggestions! As far as "fixing the prototypes", the API is agnostic of the context type, and uses void *. And also it provides a way to call the same function with different pointer types on the other arguments: For example, quoting the existing code: asmlinkage void twofish_dec_blk(struct twofish_ctx *ctx, u8 *dst, const u8 *src); Which is used for ecb and cbc: #define GLUE_FUNC_CAST(fn) ((common_glue_func_t)(fn)) #define GLUE_CBC_FUNC_CAST(fn) ((common_glue_cbc_func_t)(fn)) ... static const struct common_glue_ctx twofish_dec = { ... .fn_u = { .ecb = GLUE_FUNC_CAST(twofish_dec_blk) } static const struct common_glue_ctx twofish_dec_cbc = { ... .fn_u = { .cbc = GLUE_CBC_FUNC_CAST(twofish_dec_blk) } which have different prototypes: typedef void (*common_glue_func_t)(void *ctx, u8 *dst, const u8 *src); typedef void (*common_glue_cbc_func_t)(void *ctx, u128 *dst, const u128 *src); ... struct common_glue_func_entry { unsigned int num_blocks; /* number of blocks that @fn will process */ union { common_glue_func_t ecb; common_glue_cbc_func_t cbc; common_glue_ctr_func_t ctr; common_glue_xts_func_t xts; } fn_u; }; What CFI dislikes is calling a func(void *ctx, ...) when the actual function is, for example, func(struct twofish_ctx *ctx, ...). This needs to be fixed at the call site, not the static initializers, and since the call site is void, there needs to be a static inline that will satisfy the types. I'm open to suggestions! :) Thanks, -- Kees Cook