On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 03:00:32PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > 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/renesas/rswitch.c:1533:20: 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 = rswitch_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 rswitch_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@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Kees Cook
