Re: [PATCH] leds: leds-mt6323: Adjust return/parameter types in wled get/set callbacks

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On Thu, 22 Jun 2023, Nick Desaulniers wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 9:12 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Clang's kernel Control Flow Integrity (kCFI) is a compiler-based
> > security mitigation that ensures the target of an indirect function call
> > matches the expected type of the call and trapping if they do not match
> > exactly. The warning -Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict aims
> > to catch these issues at compile time, which reveals:
> >
> >  drivers/leds/leds-mt6323.c:598:49: error: incompatible function pointer types assigning to 'int (*)(struct led_classdev *, enum led_brightness)' from 'int (struct led_classdev *, unsigned int)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
> >    598 |                         leds->led[reg]->cdev.brightness_set_blocking =
> >        |                                                                      ^
> >    599 |                                                 mt6323_wled_set_brightness;
> >        |                                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >  drivers/leds/leds-mt6323.c:600:40: error: incompatible function pointer types assigning to 'enum led_brightness (*)(struct led_classdev *)' from 'unsigned int (struct led_classdev *)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
> >    600 |                         leds->led[reg]->cdev.brightness_get =
> >        |                                                             ^
> >    601 |                                                 mt6323_get_wled_brightness;
> >        |                                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >  2 errors generated.
> >
> > While 'unsigned int' is ABI compatible with 'enum led_brightness' (hence
> > no warning from -Wincompatible-function-pointer-types) and the callers
> > of these callbacks use/pass the values as 'unsigned int', the mismatch
> > between the prototype and the called function will trip kCFI at runtime.
> >
> > Change the types in the implementations to match the prototypes, clearing
> > up the warning and avoiding kCFI failures.
> >
> > Fixes: 9bb0a9e0626c ("leds: leds-mt6323: Add support for WLEDs and MT6332")
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks for the patch! Consider additionally having
> mt6323_get_wled_brightness return LED_OFF rather than 0 in its
> ternary.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/linux/leds.h#L32

Perhaps this is not relevant for this older driver though?

I'd really like some more information from Pavel on the history.

> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/leds/leds-mt6323.c | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-mt6323.c b/drivers/leds/leds-mt6323.c
> > index e8fecfc2e90a..24f35bdb55fb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/leds/leds-mt6323.c
> > +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-mt6323.c
> > @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ struct mt6323_led {
> >         int                     id;
> >         struct mt6323_leds      *parent;
> >         struct led_classdev     cdev;
> > -       unsigned int            current_brightness;
> > +       enum led_brightness     current_brightness;
> >  };
> >
> >  /**
> > @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ static int mtk_wled_hw_off(struct led_classdev *cdev)
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > -static unsigned int mt6323_get_wled_brightness(struct led_classdev *cdev)
> > +static enum led_brightness mt6323_get_wled_brightness(struct led_classdev *cdev)
> >  {
> >         struct mt6323_led *led = container_of(cdev, struct mt6323_led, cdev);
> >         struct mt6323_leds *leds = led->parent;
> > @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ static unsigned int mt6323_get_wled_brightness(struct led_classdev *cdev)
> >  }
> >
> >  static int mt6323_wled_set_brightness(struct led_classdev *cdev,
> > -                                     unsigned int brightness)
> > +                                     enum led_brightness brightness)
> >  {
> >         struct mt6323_led *led = container_of(cdev, struct mt6323_led, cdev);
> >         struct mt6323_leds *leds = led->parent;
> >
> > ---
> > base-commit: 7bd932d9adbcc5c5370d968bdb0b00385606bf3a
> > change-id: 20230621-mt6323-wled-wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict-334f06d92ffb
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]



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