Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:03:41 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vgacon: fix function prototypes |
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 03:40:59AM -0300, Joao Moreira wrote: > It is possible to indirectly invoke functions with prototypes that do not > match those of the respectively used function pointers by using void types. > Despite widely used as a feature for relaxing function invocation, this > should be avoided when possible as it may prevent the use of heuristics > such as prototype matching-based Control-Flow Integrity, which can be used > to prevent ROP-based attacks. > > Given the above, the current efforts to improve the Linux security, and the > upcoming kernel support to compilers with CFI features, fix prototypes in > vgacon console driver. > > Another similar fix can be seen in [1]. > > [1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/kernel/common/+/602010 > > Signed-off-by: João Moreira <jmoreira@suse.de> > Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> > Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> > --- > drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
This fails the build :(
drivers/video/console/vgacon.c:1432:15: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] .con_putcs = vgacon_putcs, ^~~~~~~~~~~~
What tree should this go to? It doesn't apply at all to my tty tree, which is where I thought it should go, so I tried a different one and got this mess :(
confused,
greg k-h
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