From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
GUO Zihua <guozihua@huawei.com>,
Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com,
fmdefrancesco@gmail.com, skumark1902@gmail.com,
asif.kgauri@gmail.com, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 06/27] staging: rtl8712: Fix return type for implementation of ndo_start_xmit
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 07:55:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y0eoWDmylWzZjcNA@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221013002501.1895204-6-sashal@kernel.org>
On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 08:24:38PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: GUO Zihua <guozihua@huawei.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 307d343620e1fc7a6a2b7a1cdadb705532c9b6a5 ]
>
> CFI (Control Flow Integrity) is a safety feature allowing the system to
> detect and react should a potential control flow hijacking occurs. In
> particular, the Forward-Edge CFI protects indirect function calls by
> ensuring the prototype of function that is actually called matches the
> definition of the function hook.
>
> Since Linux now supports CFI, it will be a good idea to fix mismatched
> return type for implementation of hooks. Otherwise this would get
> cought out by CFI and cause a panic.
And another that should be dropped from all stable branches, thanks.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-13 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-13 0:24 [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 01/27] clk: zynqmp: Fix stack-out-of-bounds in strncpy` Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 02/27] media: cx88: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare() Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 03/27] clk: zynqmp: pll: rectify rate rounding in zynqmp_pll_round_rate Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 04/27] scsi: 3w-9xxx: Avoid disabling device if failing to enable it Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 05/27] nbd: Fix hung when signal interrupts nbd_start_device_ioctl() Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 06/27] staging: rtl8712: Fix return type for implementation of ndo_start_xmit Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 5:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2022-10-13 17:51 ` Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 07/27] staging: rtl8192e: " Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 5:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 08/27] power: supply: adp5061: fix out-of-bounds read in adp5061_get_chg_type() Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 09/27] staging: vt6655: fix potential memory leak Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 10/27] ata: libahci_platform: Sanity check the DT child nodes number Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 11/27] bcache: fix set_at_max_writeback_rate() for multiple attached devices Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 12/27] hid: topre: Add driver fixing report descriptor Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 13/27] HID: roccat: Fix use-after-free in roccat_read() Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 14/27] HSI: ssi_protocol: fix potential resource leak in ssip_pn_open() Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 15/27] md/raid5: Wait for MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING in raid5d Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 16/27] usb: host: xhci: Fix potential memory leak in xhci_alloc_stream_info() Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 17/27] usb: musb: Fix musb_gadget.c rxstate overflow bug Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 18/27] Revert "usb: storage: Add quirk for Samsung Fit flash" Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 19/27] staging: rtl8723bs: fix a potential memory leak in rtw_init_cmd_priv() Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 20/27] staging: rtl8192u: Fix return type of ieee80211_xmit Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 21/27] staging: octeon: Fix return type of cvm_oct_xmit and cvm_oct_xmit_pow Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 22/27] nvme: copy firmware_rev on each init Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 23/27] nvmet-tcp: add bounds check on Transfer Tag Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 24/27] usb: idmouse: fix an uninit-value in idmouse_open Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 25/27] fsi: master-ast-cf: Fix missing of_node_put in fsi_master_acf_probe Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 26/27] sbitmap: fix lockup while swapping Sasha Levin
2022-10-13 0:24 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 27/27] clk: bcm2835: Make peripheral PLLC critical Sasha Levin
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