[PATCH] rtc: msc313: Fix function prototype mismatch in msc313_rtc_probe()

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr
Sat Nov 19 00:05:28 PST 2022


Le 19/11/2022 à 00:31, Kees Cook a écrit :
> With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG),
> indirect call targets are validated against the expected function
> pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate
> ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time,
> which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed.
> 
> msc313_rtc_probe() was passing clk_disable_unprepare() directly, which
> did not have matching prototypes for devm_add_action_or_reset()'s callback
> argument. Add a wrapper and remove the cast.
> 
> This was found as a result of Clang's new -Wcast-function-type-strict
> flag, which is more sensitive than the simpler -Wcast-function-type,
> which only checks for type width mismatches.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202211041527.HD8TLSE1-lkp@intel.com
> Cc: Daniel Palmer <daniel at thingy.jp>
> Cc: Romain Perier <romain.perier at gmail.com>
> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo at towertech.it>
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com>
> Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars at kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-rtc at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> ---
>   drivers/rtc/rtc-msc313.c | 9 ++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-msc313.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-msc313.c
> index f3fde013c4b8..36e3e77f303e 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-msc313.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-msc313.c
> @@ -177,6 +177,13 @@ static irqreturn_t msc313_rtc_interrupt(s32 irq, void *dev_id)
>   	return IRQ_HANDLED;
>   }
>   
> +static void msc313_clk_disable_unprepare(void *data)
> +{
> +	struct clk *clk = data;
> +
> +	clk_disable_unprepare(clk);
> +}
> +
>   static int msc313_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
>   	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
> @@ -224,7 +231,7 @@ static int msc313_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   		return ret;
>   	}
>   
> -	ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, (void (*) (void *))clk_disable_unprepare, clk);
> +	ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, msc313_clk_disable_unprepare, clk);
>   	if (ret)
>   		return ret;
>   

Hi,

another way to fix it, is to use devm_clk_get_enabled().

It removes some LoC instead of introducing some new ones and saves a few 
bytes of memory.

CJ




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