This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: ethernet: ti: Fix return type of netcp_ndo_start_xmit() to the 4.14-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: net-ethernet-ti-fix-return-type-of-netcp_ndo_start_x.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f2608f6c1c1f29e021395cdfc43a17fe040ec297 Author: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 2 09:09:33 2022 -0700 net: ethernet: ti: Fix return type of netcp_ndo_start_xmit() [ Upstream commit 63fe6ff674a96cfcfc0fa8df1051a27aa31c70b4 ] 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/ti/netcp_core.c:1944:21: 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 = netcp_ndo_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 netcp_ndo_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> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102160933.1601260-1-nathan@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c index 452cf6cfd179..90770a2755b6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c @@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ static int netcp_tx_submit_skb(struct netcp_intf *netcp, } /* Submit the packet */ -static int netcp_ndo_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev) +static netdev_tx_t netcp_ndo_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev) { struct netcp_intf *netcp = netdev_priv(ndev); struct netcp_stats *tx_stats = &netcp->stats;