kni: fix ioctl signature
authorMarkus Theil <markus.theil@secunet.com>
Fri, 3 Dec 2021 07:19:07 +0000 (08:19 +0100)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Wed, 2 Feb 2022 19:55:05 +0000 (20:55 +0100)
Fix kni's ioctl signature to correctly match the kernel's
structs. This shaves off the (void*) casts and uses struct file*
instead of struct inode*. With the correct signature, control flow
integrity checkers are no longer confused at this point.

Signed-off-by: Markus Theil <markus.theil@secunet.com>
Tested-by: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeiffer@tu-ilmenau.de>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
kernel/linux/kni/kni_misc.c

index e8a8203..ec70190 100644 (file)
@@ -480,10 +480,10 @@ kni_ioctl_release(struct net *net, uint32_t ioctl_num,
        return ret;
 }
 
-static int
-kni_ioctl(struct inode *inode, uint32_t ioctl_num, unsigned long ioctl_param)
+static long
+kni_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int ioctl_num, unsigned long ioctl_param)
 {
-       int ret = -EINVAL;
+       long ret = -EINVAL;
        struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns;
 
        pr_debug("IOCTL num=0x%0x param=0x%0lx\n", ioctl_num, ioctl_param);
@@ -509,8 +509,8 @@ kni_ioctl(struct inode *inode, uint32_t ioctl_num, unsigned long ioctl_param)
        return ret;
 }
 
-static int
-kni_compat_ioctl(struct inode *inode, uint32_t ioctl_num,
+static long
+kni_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int ioctl_num,
                unsigned long ioctl_param)
 {
        /* 32 bits app on 64 bits OS to be supported later */
@@ -523,8 +523,8 @@ static const struct file_operations kni_fops = {
        .owner = THIS_MODULE,
        .open = kni_open,
        .release = kni_release,
-       .unlocked_ioctl = (void *)kni_ioctl,
-       .compat_ioctl = (void *)kni_compat_ioctl,
+       .unlocked_ioctl = kni_ioctl,
+       .compat_ioctl = kni_compat_ioctl,
 };
 
 static struct miscdevice kni_misc = {