Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] staging: ks7010: Avoid clashing function prototypes

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Nov 09 2022 - 19:11:00 EST


On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 02:34:46PM -0600, 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 27 warnings like these:
>
> drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c:2415:2: warning: cast from 'int (*)(struct net_device *, struct iw_request_info *, struct iw_point *, 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)ks_wlan_get_firmware_version,/* 3 KS_WLAN_GET_FIRM_VERSION */
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The ks_wlan_net 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.
>
> These changes were made partly manually and partly with the help of
> Coccinelle.
>
> Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D134831 [1]
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>

The "mode" churn makes this a bit harder to review, but I think the
final result looks better.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Kees Cook