Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] staging: ks7010: Avoid clashing function prototypes

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On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 03:22:46PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> When built with Control Flow Integrity, function prototypes between
> caller and function declaration must match. These mismatches are visible
> at compile time with the new -Wcast-function-type-strict in Clang[1].
> 
> Fix a total of 27 warnings like these:
> 
> drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c:2415:2: warning: cast from 'int (*)(struct net_device *, struct iw_request_info *, struct iw_point *, char *)' to 'iw_handler' (aka 'int (*)(struct net_device *, struct iw_request_info *, union iwreq_data *, char *)') converts to incompatible function type [-Wcast-function-type-strict]
>         (iw_handler)ks_wlan_get_firmware_version,/* 3 KS_WLAN_GET_FIRM_VERSION */
>         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> The ks_wlan_net Wireless Extension handler callbacks (iw_handler) use a
> union for the data argument. Actually use the union and perform explicit
> member selection in the function body instead of having a function
> prototype mismatch. There are no resulting binary differences
> before/after changes.
> 
> Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D134831 [1]
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>  - None. This patch is new in the series.
> 
>  drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c | 184 ++++++++++++++-------------

I think the casts in ks_wlan_private_handler can be removed, too?

-- 
Kees Cook




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