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Commit d99a55a9 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: fix function prototype mismatch for ext4_feat_ktype



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.

ext4_feat_ktype was setting the "release" handler to "kfree", which
doesn't have a matching function prototype. Add a simple wrapper
with the correct prototype.

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.

Note that this code is only reached when ext4 is a loadable module and
it is being unloaded:

 CFI failure at kobject_put+0xbb/0x1b0 (target: kfree+0x0/0x180; expected type: 0x7c4aa698)
 ...
 RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0xbb/0x1b0
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ext4_exit_sysfs+0x14/0x60 [ext4]
  cleanup_module+0x67/0xedb [ext4]

Fixes: b99fee58 ("ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically")
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Build-tested-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230103234616.never.915-kees@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104210908.gonna.388-kees@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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