Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] wifi: orinoco: Avoid clashing function prototypes

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Wed Nov 16 2022 - 04:32:25 EST


"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 43 warnings like these:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/wext.c:1379:27: warning: cast from 'int (*)(struct net_device *, struct iw_request_info *, struct iw_param *, 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(SIOCGIWPOWER, (iw_handler)orinoco_ioctl_getpower),
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The orinoco 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. No significant binary differences were seen
> before/after changes.
>
> These changes were made partly manually and partly with the help of
> Coccinelle.
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/234
> Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D134831 [1]
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

5 patches applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

2c0e077db65a wifi: orinoco: Avoid clashing function prototypes
02ae6a7034d7 wifi: cfg80211: Avoid clashing function prototypes
fd7ef879a983 wifi: hostap: Avoid clashing function prototypes
ff7efc66b7ea wifi: zd1201: Avoid clashing function prototypes
89e706459848 wifi: airo: Avoid clashing function prototypes

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