Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Nov 2022 16:06:02 -0800 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] wifi: orinoco: Avoid clashing function prototypes |
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 02:21:24PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > When built with Control Flow Integrity, function prototypes between > caller and function declaration must match. These mismatches are visible > at compile time with the new -Wcast-function-type-strict in Clang[1]. > > Fix a total of 43 warnings like these: > > drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c:1379:27: warning: cast from 'int (*)(struct net_device *, struct iw_request_info *, struct iw_param *, char *)' to 'iw_handler' (aka 'int (*)(struct net_device *, struct iw_request_info *, union iwreq_data *, char *)') converts to incompatible function type [-Wcast-function-type-strict] > IW_HANDLER(SIOCGIWPOWER, (iw_handler)orinoco_ioctl_getpower), > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The orinoco Wireless Extension handler callbacks (iw_handler) use a > union for the data argument. Actually use the union and perform explicit > member selection in the function body instead of having a function > prototype mismatch. No significant binary differences were seen > before/after changes. > > These changes were made partly manually and partly with the help of > Coccinelle. > > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/234 > Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D134831 [1] > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-- Kees Cook
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