hardening: Require clang 20.1.0 for __counted_by
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Thu, 7 Aug 2025 21:36:28 +0000 (14:36 -0700)
committerKees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:04:53 +0000 (12:04 -0700)
commit86a9b1250602d877a393dcbab5f42472f77ac0f7
tree558f11697cf880d230852288cbdec9b1203331d8
parentf05995cc6d3bb742a10996036043ade8d1c65ab7
hardening: Require clang 20.1.0 for __counted_by

After an innocuous change in -next that modified a structure that
contains __counted_by, clang-19 start crashing when building certain
files in drivers/gpu/drm/xe. When assertions are enabled, the more
descriptive failure is:

  clang: clang/lib/AST/RecordLayoutBuilder.cpp:3335: const ASTRecordLayout &clang::ASTContext::getASTRecordLayout(const RecordDecl *) const: Assertion `D && "Cannot get layout of forward declarations!"' failed.

According to a reverse bisect, a tangential change to the LLVM IR
generation phase of clang during the LLVM 20 development cycle [1]
resolves this problem. Bump the version of clang that enables
CONFIG_CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY to 20.1.0 to ensure that this issue cannot be
hit.

Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/160fb1121cdf703c3ef5e61fb26c5659eb581489
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250807-fix-counted_by-clang-19-v1-1-902c86c1d515@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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