Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: Change the return type for vport_ops.send function hook to int

From: Eelco Chaudron
Date: Mon Sep 19 2022 - 09:21:08 EST




On 14 Sep 2022, at 1:07, Nathan Huckleberry wrote:

> All usages of the vport_ops struct have the .send field set to
> dev_queue_xmit or internal_dev_recv. Since most usages are set to
> dev_queue_xmit, the function hook should match the signature of
> dev_queue_xmit.
>
> The only call to vport_ops->send() is in net/openvswitch/vport.c and it
> throws away the return value.
>
> This mismatched return type breaks forward edge kCFI since the underlying
> function definition does not match the function hook definition.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1703
> Cc: llvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@xxxxxxxxxx>

The changes look good to me.

Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@xxxxxxxxxx>