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    hamradio: baycom_epp: Fix return type of baycom_send_packet() · c5733e5b
    Nathan Chancellor authored
    With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG),
    indirect call targets are validated against the expected function
    pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate
    ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time,
    which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed. A
    proposed warning in clang aims to catch these at compile time, which
    reveals:
    
      drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c:1119:25: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'netdev_tx_t (*)(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' (aka 'enum netdev_tx (*)(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)') with an expression of type 'int (struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
              .ndo_start_xmit      = baycom_send_packet,
                                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      1 error generated.
    
    ->ndo_start_xmit() in 'struct net_device_ops' expects a return type of
    'netdev_tx_t', not 'int'. Adjust the return type of baycom_send_packet()
    to match the prototype's to resolve the warning and CFI failure.
    
    Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1750Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102160610.1186145-1-nathan@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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