Re: [PATCH] scsi: elx: libefc: Fix second parameter type in state callbacks

[Ram Kishore Vegesna <ram.vegesna@broadcom.com>]

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On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 12:38 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 09:19:06AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > 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/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_node.c:811:22: error: incompatible
> function pointer types assigning to 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, u32,
> void *)' (aka 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, unsigned int, void *)') from
> 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, enum efc_sm_event, void *)'
> [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
> >                   ctx->current_state = state;
> >                                     ^ ~~~~~
> >   drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_node.c:878:21: error: incompatible
> function pointer types assigning to 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, u32,
> void *)' (aka 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, unsigned int, void *)') from
> 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, enum efc_sm_event, void *)'
> [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
> >           node->nodedb_state = state;
> >                             ^ ~~~~~
> >   drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_node.c:905:6: error: incompatible function
> pointer types assigning to 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, enum
> efc_sm_event, void *)' from 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, u32, void *)'
> (aka 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, unsigned int, void *)')
> [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
> >                   pf = node->nodedb_state;
> >                     ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >   drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_device.c:455:22: error: incompatible
> function pointer types assigning to 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, u32,
> void *)' (aka 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, unsigned int, void *)') from
> 'void (struct efc_sm_ctx *, enum efc_sm_event, void *)'
> [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
> >                   node->nodedb_state = __efc_d_init;
> >                                     ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >   drivers/scsi/elx/libefc/efc_sm.c:41:22: error: incompatible function
> pointer types assigning to 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, u32, void *)'
> (aka 'void (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, unsigned int, void *)') from 'void
> (*)(struct efc_sm_ctx *, enum efc_sm_event, void *)'
> [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
> >                   ctx->current_state = state;
> >                                     ^ ~~~~~
> >
> > The type of the second parameter in the prototypes of ->current_state()
> > and ->nodedb_state() ('u32') does not match the implementations, which
> > have a second parameter type of 'enum efc_sm_event'. Update the
> > prototypes to have the correct second parameter type, clearing up all
> > the warnings and CFI failures.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1750
> > Reported-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> --
> Kees Cook
>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Ram Vegesna<ram.vegesna@broadcom.com>

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