Re: [PATCH] qemu_fw_cfg: Make fw_cfg_rev_attr a proper kobj_attribute

[Sami Tolvanen]

Hi Nathan,

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:43 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> fw_cfg_showrev() is called by an indirect call in kobj_attr_show(),
> which violates clang's CFI checking because fw_cfg_showrev()'s second
> parameter is 'struct attribute', whereas the ->show() member of 'struct
> kobj_structure' expects the second parameter to be of type 'struct
> kobj_attribute'.
>
> $ cat /sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/rev
> 3
>
> $ dmesg | grep "CFI failure"
> [   26.016832] CFI failure (target: fw_cfg_showrev+0x0/0x8):
>
> Fix this by converting fw_cfg_rev_attr to 'struct kobj_attribute' where
> this would have been caught automatically by the incompatible pointer
> types compiler warning. Update fw_cfg_showrev() accordingly.
>
> Fixes: 75f3e8e47f38 ("firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1299
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me. Thank you for sending the patch!

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sami