s390/netiucv: Fix return type of netiucv_tx()
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Thu, 3 Nov 2022 17:01:29 +0000 (10:01 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 18 Jan 2023 08:26:31 +0000 (09:26 +0100)
commiteccc88c0efe407e579291792ad07a7dedc0f63f0
tree4d298a2234913cecad4022c6bdd824123186656c
parentb85c292f151d547a10d2ce7bb9edd94ba246c55c
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@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c