From: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>,
linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hv_netvsc: Fix netvsc_start_xmit's return type
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:08:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200428100828.aslw3pn5nhwtlsnt@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2.j3c5onc20sse1dnehy4noqpfcg.zx.internal.cloudapp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200428033042.44561-1-natechancellor@gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 08:30:43PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> netvsc_start_xmit is used as a callback function for the ndo_start_xmit
> function pointer. ndo_start_xmit's return type is netdev_tx_t but
> netvsc_start_xmit's return type is int.
>
> This causes a failure with Control Flow Integrity (CFI), which requires
> function pointer prototypes and callback function definitions to match
> exactly. When CFI is in enforcing, the kernel panics. When booting a
> CFI kernel with WSL 2, the VM is immediately terminated because of this:
>
> $ wsl.exe -d ubuntu
> The Windows Subsystem for Linux instance has terminated.
>
> Avoid this by using the right return type for netvsc_start_xmit.
>
> Fixes: fceaf24a943d8 ("Staging: hv: add the Hyper-V virtual network driver")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1009
Please consider pulling in the panic log from #1009 to the commit
message. It is much better than the one line message above.
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Do note that netvsc_xmit still returns int because netvsc_xmit has a
> potential return from netvsc_vf_xmit, which does not return netdev_tx_t
> because of the call to dev_queue_xmit.
>
> I am not sure if that is an oversight that was introduced by
> commit 0c195567a8f6e ("netvsc: transparent VF management") or if
> everything works properly as it is now.
>
> My patch is purely concerned with making the definition match the
> prototype so it should be NFC aside from avoiding the CFI panic.
>
> drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> index d8e86bdbfba1e..ebcfbae056900 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
> @@ -707,7 +707,8 @@ static int netvsc_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net, bool xdp_tx)
> goto drop;
> }
>
> -static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
> +static netdev_tx_t netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
> + struct net_device *ndev)
> {
> return netvsc_xmit(skb, ndev, false);
> }
>
> base-commit: 51184ae37e0518fd90cb437a2fbc953ae558cd0d
> --
> 2.26.2
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-28 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-28 3:30 [PATCH] hv_netvsc: Fix netvsc_start_xmit's return type Nathan Chancellor
2020-04-28 10:08 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2020-04-28 17:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Nathan Chancellor
2020-04-29 10:10 ` Wei Liu
2020-04-29 18:11 ` David Miller
2020-04-30 0:06 ` Michael Kelley
2020-04-30 6:01 ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-04-30 15:42 ` Haiyang Zhang
2020-05-01 22:25 ` David Miller
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