Re: [PATCH] can: rockchip_canfd: fix return type of rkcanfd_start_xmit()

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 10:57:06AM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 09.09.2024 09:44:48, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 01:26:41PM -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
> > > warning in clang aims to catch these at compile time, which reveals:
> > > 
> > >   drivers/net/can/rockchip/rockchip_canfd-core.c:770:20: 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]
> > >     770 |         .ndo_start_xmit = rkcanfd_start_xmit,
> > >         |                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > 
> > > ->ndo_start_xmit() in 'struct net_device_ops' expects a return type of
> > > 'netdev_tx_t', not 'int' (although the types are ABI compatible). Adjust
> > > the return type of rkcanfd_start_xmit() to match the prototype's to
> > > resolve the warning.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: ff60bfbaf67f ("can: rockchip_canfd: add driver for Rockchip CAN-FD controller")
> > > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> > 
> > Thanks, I was able to reproduce this problem at build time
> > and that your patch addresses it.
> 
> FTR: the default clang in Debian unstable, clang-16.0.6 doesn't support
> this. With clang-20 from experimental it works, haven't checked older
> versions, though.

FTR: I checked using 18.1.8 from here [1][2].

[1] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/llvm/
[2] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/llvm/files/