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STALE1396d REVIEWED: 3 (3M)

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[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.19 42/73] net: ax88796c: Fix return type of ax88796c_start_xmit

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-10-09 22:28:21
Also in: lkml, llvm, stable
Subsystem: asix ax88796c spi ethernet adapter, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Łukasz Stelmach, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Nathan Huckleberry <redacted>

[ Upstream commit fcb7c210a24209ea8f6f32593580b57f52382ec2 ]

The ndo_start_xmit field in net_device_ops is expected to be of type
netdev_tx_t (*ndo_start_xmit)(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev).

The mismatched return type breaks forward edge kCFI since the underlying
function definition does not match the function hook definition.

The return type of ax88796c_start_xmit should be changed from int to
netdev_tx_t.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1703
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <redacted>
Acked-by: Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912194031.808425-1-nhuck@google.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c
index 6ba5b024a7be..f1d610efd69e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static int ax88796c_hard_xmit(struct ax88796c_device *ax_local)
 	return 1;
 }
 
-static int
+static netdev_tx_t
 ax88796c_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 {
 	struct ax88796c_device *ax_local = to_ax88796c_device(ndev);
-- 
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