From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> When building with clang and CONFIG_RANDSTRUCT_FULL=y, there is an error due to a cast in eventfs_create_events_dir(): fs/tracefs/event_inode.c:734:10: error: casting from randomized structure pointer type 'struct dentry *' to 'struct eventfs_inode *' 734 | return (struct eventfs_inode *)dentry; | ^ 1 error generated. Use the ERR_CAST() function to resolve the error, as it was designed for this exact situation (casting an error pointer to another type). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231018-ftrace-fix-clang-randstruct-v1-1-338cb214abfb@xxxxxxxxxx Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1947 Fixes: 5790b1fb3d67 ("eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode") Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> (cherry picked from commit b8a555dc31e5aa18d976de0bc228006e398a2e7d) --- fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c index 1ccd100bc565..9f19b6608954 100644 --- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c @@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry return NULL; if (IS_ERR(dentry)) - return (struct eventfs_inode *)dentry; + return ERR_CAST(dentry); ei = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ei) -- 2.43.0