linux-kernel - [PATCH] hv_netvsc: Fix netvsc_start

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Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:30:43 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] hv_netvsc: Fix netvsc_start_xmit's return type

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
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.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