linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] bna: Avoid clashing function prototypes

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Message-ID: <f31ea73f-143c-ef24-8637-6d68430953bf@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:13:25 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Sudarsana Kalluru <skalluru@...vell.com>,
        GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com, Rasesh Mody <rmody@...vell.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] bna: Avoid clashing function prototypes



On 10/29/22 02:12, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 03:20:47PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> When built with Control Flow Integrity, function prototypes between
>> caller and function declaration must match. These mismatches are visible
>> at compile time with the new -Wcast-function-type-strict in Clang[1].
>>
>> Fix a total of 227 warnings like these:
>>
>> drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bna_enet.c:519:3: warning: cast from 'void (*)(struct bna_ethport *, enum bna_ethport_event)' to 'bfa_fsm_t' (aka 'void (*)(void *, int)') converts to incompatible function type [-Wcast-function-type-strict]
>>                  bfa_fsm_set_state(ethport, bna_ethport_sm_down);
>>                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> The bna state machine code heavily overloads its state machine functions,
>> so these have been separated into their own sets of structs, enums,
>> typedefs, and helper functions. There are almost zero binary code changes,
>> all seem to be related to header file line numbers changing, or the
>> addition of the new stats helper.
> 
> This looks like it borrowed from
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220929230334.2109344-1-keescook@chromium.org/
> Nice to get a couple hundred more fixed. :)

Yep; you're right. That's exactly the patch I was staring at
while doing these changes. :)

> 
>> [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D134831
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>>   - None. This patch is new in the series.
> 
> This is relatively stand-alone (not an iw_handler patch), so it could
> also go separately too.

My criteria here was that all these patches avoid clashing function
prototypes. So, they could be put together into a series, regardless
if they are "iw_handler" related patches.

> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Thanks!
--
Gustavo