Re: [PATCH v3] staging: octeon: Fix return type of cvm_oct_xmit and cvm_oct_xmit_pow

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022, at 11:10 PM, Nathan Huckleberry wrote:
> 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 cvm_oct_xmit and cvm_oct_xmit_pow should be changed
> from int to netdev_tx_t.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1703
> Cc: llvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Changes v1 -> v2:
> - Update function signatures in ethernet-tx.h.
>
> Changes v2 -> v3:
> - Move changes below the scissors --- so they don't show in commit msg
> - Add reviewed-by tag

The patch looks correct to me so

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

but I have two more general comments:

- For your changelogs, it would help to include the diagnostic message
  from smatch that you link to.

- This has probably been discussed before, but why is this only
  reported by smatch but by clang itself when building with CFI
  enabled? It appears that CFI enforces stricter C++ style type
  compatibility on enums while the warnings only catch incompatible
  types according to the normal C11 rules.

     Arnd