Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl*: Remove tasklet callback casts

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Nov 15 2019 - 11:49:50 EST


On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 02:16:10PM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 09:39:00PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > In order to make the entire kernel usable under Clang's Control Flow
> > Integrity protections, function prototype casts need to be avoided
> > because this will trip CFI checks at runtime (i.e. a mismatch between
> > the caller's expected function prototype and the destination function's
> > prototype). Many of these cases can be found with -Wcast-function-type,
> > which found that the rtl wifi drivers had a bunch of needless function
> > casts. Remove function casts for tasklet callbacks in the various drivers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c | 3 +--
> > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.c | 3 +--
> > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/rtl8188e_recv.h | 2 +-
> > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/rtl8188e_xmit.h | 2 +-
> > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_ops_linux.c | 4 ++--
> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c | 7 +++----
> > .../staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c | 7 +++----
> > drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c | 8 ++++----
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c | 11 +++++------
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.c | 5 ++---
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_xmit.h | 2 +-
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops_linux.c | 4 ++--
> > drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_recv.c | 11 ++++-------
> > 13 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>
> This fails to apply to my staging-next branch of staging.git. Can you
> rebase and resend?

Ah, hrm, sorry. I think I was based on Linus's master. I will adjust!

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Kees Cook