"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 42 warnings like these: > > ../drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_ioctl.c:3868:2: warning: cast from 'int (*)(struct net_device *, struct iw_request_info *, char *, 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) prism2_get_name, /* SIOCGIWNAME */ > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The hostap 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://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/235 > Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D134831 [1] > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> Please add "wifi: " to all wireless patches, for example this one should be: wifi: hostap: Avoid clashing function prototypes -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/8388b5ed9e729eb9dadec875a7576219e6d61223.1666894751.git.gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
