Re: [PATCH 1/4] counter: Adjust final parameter type in function and signal callbacks

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Nov 02 2022 - 18:02:52 EST


On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 01:23:51PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Right, I am not the biggest fan of this change myself and it is entirely
> possible that I am misreading the warnings from the commit message but I
> do not see how
>
> comp_node.comp.signal_u32_read = counter->ops->signal_read;
>
> and
>
> comp_node.comp.count_u32_read = counter->ops->function_read;
>
> in counter_add_watch(),
>
> comp.signal_u32_read = counter->ops->signal_read;
>
> in counter_signal_attrs_create(), and
>
> comp.count_u32_read = counter->ops->function_read;
> comp.count_u32_write = counter->ops->function_write;
>
> in counter_count_attrs_create() are currently safe under kCFI, since the
> final parameter type of the prototypes in 'struct counter_ops' does not
> match the final parameter type of the prototypes in 'struct
> counter_comp'. I would expect the indirect calls in counter_get_data()
> and counter_comp_u32_show() to fail currently.

Ah! Thank you -- those were the places I couldn't find.

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Kees Cook