This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
um: net: Fix return type of uml_net_start_xmit()
to the 6.6-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:
um-net-fix-return-type-of-uml_net_start_xmit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 351e0f70d6f56d22d8f3b7d4c46ac7ab78cd4620
Author: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Dec 6 09:49:46 2023 -0700
um: net: Fix return type of uml_net_start_xmit()
[ Upstream commit 7d748f60a4b82b50bf25fad1bd42d33f049f76aa ]
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
warning in clang aims to catch these at compile time, which reveals:
arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c:353:21: warning: 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 *)' [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
353 | .ndo_start_xmit = uml_net_start_xmit,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 warning generated.
->ndo_start_xmit() in 'struct net_device_ops' expects a return type of
'netdev_tx_t', not 'int'. Adjust the return type of uml_net_start_xmit()
to match the prototype's to resolve the warning. While UML does not
currently implement support for kCFI, it could in the future, which
means this warning becomes a fatal CFI failure at run time.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202310031340.v1vPh207-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
Acked-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
index 3d7836c46507..cabcc501b448 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static int uml_net_close(struct net_device *dev)
return 0;
}
-static int uml_net_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
+static netdev_tx_t uml_net_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
{
struct uml_net_private *lp = netdev_priv(dev);
unsigned long flags;
