Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:51:40 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 06/27] staging: rtl8712: Fix return type for implementation of ndo_start_xmit |
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 07:55:36AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >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.
Ack, I'll drop this and the rest of the staging patches you've pointed out.
-- Thanks, Sasha
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