This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/netiucv: Fix return type of netiucv_tx() to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: s390-netiucv-fix-return-type-of-netiucv_tx.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 2802fb639f24c99f7d8523ccb4775413a0541d72 Author: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 3 10:01:29 2022 -0700 s390/netiucv: Fix return type of netiucv_tx() [ Upstream commit 88d86d18d7cf7e9137c95f9d212bb9fff8a1b4be ] 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/s390/net/netiucv.c:1854:21: 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 = netiucv_tx, ^~~~~~~~~~ ->ndo_start_xmit() in 'struct net_device_ops' expects a return type of 'netdev_tx_t', not 'int'. Adjust the return type of netiucv_tx() to match the prototype's to resolve the warning and potential CFI failure, should s390 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG in the future. Additionally, while in the area, remove a comment block that is no longer relevant. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1750 Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c index 65aa0a96c21d..66076cada8ae 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c @@ -1248,15 +1248,8 @@ static int netiucv_close(struct net_device *dev) /* * Start transmission of a packet. * Called from generic network device layer. - * - * @param skb Pointer to buffer containing the packet. - * @param dev Pointer to interface struct. - * - * @return 0 if packet consumed, !0 if packet rejected. - * Note: If we return !0, then the packet is free'd by - * the generic network layer. */ -static int netiucv_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) +static netdev_tx_t netiucv_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) { struct netiucv_priv *privptr = netdev_priv(dev); int rc;