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* [PATCH] net: mana: Fix return type of mana_start_xmit
@ 2022-09-12 21:43 ` Nathan Huckleberry
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Nathan Huckleberry @ 2022-09-12 21:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: Nathan Huckleberry, Dan Carpenter, llvm, K. Y. Srinivasan,
	Haiyang Zhang, Stephen Hemminger, Wei Liu, Dexuan Cui,
	David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni,
	Nathan Chancellor, Nick Desaulniers, Tom Rix, linux-hyperv,
	netdev, linux-kernel

The ndo_start_xmit field in net_device_ops is expected to be of type
netdev_tx_t (*ndo_start_xmit)(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev).

The mismatched return type breaks forward edge kCFI since the underlying
function definition does not match the function hook definition.

The return type of mana_start_xmit should be changed from int to
netdev_tx_t.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1703
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
index 9259a74eca40..dfecef8c08e5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ static int mana_map_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct mana_port_context *apc,
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
-int mana_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
+netdev_tx_t mana_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 {
 	enum mana_tx_pkt_format pkt_fmt = MANA_SHORT_PKT_FMT;
 	struct mana_port_context *apc = netdev_priv(ndev);
-- 
2.37.2.789.g6183377224-goog


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2022-09-12 21:43 ` Nathan Huckleberry
2022-09-12 21:56 ` Dexuan Cui
2022-09-20  1:28 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-09-29 18:14   ` [PATCH v2] " Nathan Huckleberry
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