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Message-ID: <f1e0405e-eee8-ede4-f28e-bb3c80a88ef2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 07:22:51 +0200
From: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@...il.com>
To: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@...gle.com>, nathan@...nel.org
Cc: Larry.Finger@...inger.net, error27@...il.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: r8188eu: Fix return type of rtw_xmit_entry
On 9/14/22 23:16, Nathan Huckleberry wrote:
> 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 rtw_xmit_entry should be changed from int to
> netdev_tx_t.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1703
> Cc: llvm@...ts.linux.dev
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> ---
>
> Changes v1 -> v2:
> - Rebased onto linux-next/master
>
> Changes v2 -> v3:
> - Updated header file
> - Add reviewed-by tag
>
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_xmit.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
> index 98864fc55b25..ea13f11b231b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
> @@ -2289,7 +2289,7 @@ static int rtw_mlcst2unicst(struct adapter *padapter, struct sk_buff *skb)
> return true;
> }
>
> -int rtw_xmit_entry(struct sk_buff *pkt, struct net_device *pnetdev)
> +netdev_tx_t rtw_xmit_entry(struct sk_buff *pkt, struct net_device *pnetdev)
> {
> struct adapter *padapter = (struct adapter *)rtw_netdev_priv(pnetdev);
> struct xmit_priv *pxmitpriv = &padapter->xmitpriv;
> @@ -2323,5 +2323,5 @@ int rtw_xmit_entry(struct sk_buff *pkt, struct net_device *pnetdev)
> dev_kfree_skb_any(pkt);
>
> exit:
> - return 0;
> + return NETDEV_TX_OK;
> }
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_xmit.h b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_xmit.h
> index 8f54c41ba927..82efcd54af3f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_xmit.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_xmit.h
> @@ -368,6 +368,6 @@ int rtw_ack_tx_wait(struct xmit_priv *pxmitpriv, u32 timeout_ms);
> void rtw_ack_tx_done(struct xmit_priv *pxmitpriv, int status);
>
> void rtw_xmit_complete(struct adapter *padapter, struct xmit_frame *pxframe);
> -int rtw_xmit_entry(struct sk_buff *pkt, struct net_device *pnetdev);
> +netdev_tx_t rtw_xmit_entry(struct sk_buff *pkt, struct net_device *pnetdev);
>
> #endif /* _RTL871X_XMIT_H_ */
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@...il.com> # Edimax N150
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