From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:54:56 -0700 > netvsc_start_xmit is used as a callback function for the ndo_start_xmit > function pointer. ndo_start_xmit's return type is netdev_tx_t but > netvsc_start_xmit's return type is int. > > This causes a failure with Control Flow Integrity (CFI), which requires > function pointer prototypes and callback function definitions to match > exactly. When CFI is in enforcing, the kernel panics. When booting a > CFI kernel with WSL 2, the VM is immediately terminated because of this. > > The splat when CONFIG_CFI_PERMISSIVE is used: ... > Avoid this by using the right return type for netvsc_start_xmit. > > Fixes: fceaf24a943d8 ("Staging: hv: add the Hyper-V virtual network driver") > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1009 > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> Applied.