Re: [PATCH] drm/meson: Fix return type of meson_encoder_cvbs_mode_valid()

[Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 08:52:42AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> 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/gpu/drm/meson/meson_encoder_cvbs.c:211:16: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'enum drm_mode_status (*)(struct drm_bridge *, const struct drm_display_info *, const struct drm_display_mode *)' with an expression of type 'int (struct drm_bridge *, const struct drm_display_info *, const struct drm_display_mode *)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
>           .mode_valid = meson_encoder_cvbs_mode_valid,
>                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   1 error generated.
> 
> ->mode_valid() in 'struct drm_bridge_funcs' expects a return type of
> 'enum drm_mode_status', not 'int'. Adjust the return type of
> meson_encoder_cvbs_mode_valid() to match the prototype's to resolve the
> warning and CFI failure.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1750
> Reported-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

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

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Kees Cook