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In order to keep ahead of cases in the kernel where Control Flow Integrity (CFI) may trip over function call casts, enabling -Wcast-function-type is helpful. To that end, BPF_CAST_CALL causes various warnings and is one of the last places in the kernel triggering this warning. Most places using BPF_CAST_CALL actually just want a void * to perform math on. It's not actually performing a call, so just use a different helper to get the void *, by way of the new BPF_CALL_IMM() helper, which can clean up a common copy/paste idiom as well. This change results in no object code difference. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/20 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAEf4Bzb46=-J5Fxc3mMZ8JQPtK1uoE0q6+g6WPz53Cvx=CBEhw@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210928230946.4062144-2-keescook@chromium.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.