Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] zd1201: Avoid clashing function prototypes

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 03:19:19PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> When built with Control Flow Integrity, function prototypes between
> caller and function declaration must match. These mismatches are visible
> at compile time with the new -Wcast-function-type-strict in Clang[1].
> 
> Fix a total of 30 warnings like these:
> 
> ../drivers/net/wireless/zydas/zd1201.c:1560:2: warning: cast from 'int (*)(struct net_device *, struct iw_request_info *, struct iw_freq *, char *)' to 'iw_handler' (aka 'int (*)(struct net_device *, struct iw_request_info *, union iwreq_data *, char *)') converts to incompatible function type [-Wcast-function-type-strict]
>         (iw_handler) zd1201_set_freq,           /* SIOCSIWFREQ */
>         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> The zd1201 Wireless Extension handler callbacks (iw_handler) use a
> union for the data argument. Actually use the union and perform explicit
> member selection in the function body instead of having a function
> prototype mismatch.There are no resulting binary differences
> before/after changes.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/233
> Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D134831 [1]
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>

This looks right to me. I've got half a cocci script that spits out
something close says interdiff. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Kees Cook