Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2022-10-09
STALE1391d REVIEWED: 6 (6M)

2 review trailers (1 from subsystem maintainers).

[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.19 45/73] net: ethernet: litex: Fix return type of liteeth_start_xmit

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-10-09 22:28:28
Also in: lkml, llvm, stable
Subsystem: litex platform, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Karol Gugala, Mateusz Holenko, Gabriel Somlo, Joel Stanley, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Nathan Huckleberry <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 40662333dd7c64664247a6138bc33f3974e3a331 ]

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 liteeth_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>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220912195307.812229-1-nhuck@google.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/litex/litex_liteeth.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/litex/litex_liteeth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/litex/litex_liteeth.c
index fdd99f0de424..35f24e0f0934 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/litex/litex_liteeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/litex/litex_liteeth.c
@@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ static int liteeth_stop(struct net_device *netdev)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int liteeth_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
+static netdev_tx_t liteeth_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
+				      struct net_device *netdev)
 {
 	struct liteeth *priv = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	void __iomem *txbuffer;
-- 
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