From: Oscar Carter <oscar.carter@gmx.com>
To: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>,
keescook@chromium.org, mchehab@kernel.org, clemens@ladisch.de,
tiwai@suse.de, perex@perex.cz
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Oscar Carter <oscar.carter@gmx.com>,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de,
levonshe@gmail.com, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] firewire: obsolete cast of function callback toward CFI
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 19:35:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200522173549.GA3059@ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200520064726.31838-1-o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Hi,
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:47:24PM +0900, Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Oscar Carter works for Control Flow Integrity build. Any cast
> of function callback is inconvenient for the work. Unfortunately,
> current code of firewire-core driver includes the cast[1] and Oscar
> posted some patches to remove it[2]. The patch is itself good. However,
> it includes changes existent kernel API and all of drivers as user
> of the API get affects from the change.
>
> This patchset is an alternative idea to add a new kernel API specific
> for multichannel isoc context. The existent kernel API and drivers is
> left as is.
>
> Practically, no in-kernel drivers use the additional API. Although the
> API is exported in the patchset, it's better to discuss about unexporting
> the API.
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c#n985
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200519173425.4724-1-oscar.carter@gmx.com/
>
> Regards
>
> Takashi Sakamoto (2):
> firewire-core: add kernel API to construct multichannel isoc context
> firewire-core: obsolete cast of function callback
>
> drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> drivers/firewire/core-iso.c | 17 ++++++++++++++
> include/linux/firewire.h | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
Thanks for your work and new proposal. I've done a test build an it cleans the
-Wcast-function-type warning without the need to change the current API. So, it
looks good to me.
Thanks,
Oscar Carter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-22 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-20 6:47 [PATCH 0/2] firewire: obsolete cast of function callback toward CFI Takashi Sakamoto
2020-05-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] firewire-core: add kernel API to construct multichannel isoc context Takashi Sakamoto
2020-05-20 6:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] firewire-core: obsolete cast of function callback Takashi Sakamoto
2020-05-22 17:35 ` Oscar Carter [this message]
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