tty: mxser: Remove __counted_by from mxser_board.ports[]

Work for __counted_by on generic pointers in structures (not just
flexible array members) has started landing in Clang 19 (current tip of
tree). During the development of this feature, a restriction was added
to __counted_by to prevent the flexible array member's element type from
including a flexible array member itself such as:

  struct foo {
    int count;
    char buf[];
  };

  struct bar {
    int count;
    struct foo data[] __counted_by(count);
  };

because the size of data cannot be calculated with the standard array
size formula:

  sizeof(struct foo) * count

This restriction was downgraded to a warning but due to CONFIG_WERROR,
it can still break the build. The application of __counted_by on the
ports member of 'struct mxser_board' triggers this restriction,
resulting in:

  drivers/tty/mxser.c:291:2: error: 'counted_by' should not be applied to an array with element of unknown size because 'struct mxser_port' is a struct type with a flexible array member. This will be an error in a future compiler version [-Werror,-Wbounds-safety-counted-by-elt-type-unknown-size]
    291 |         struct mxser_port ports[] __counted_by(nports);
        |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1 error generated.

Remove this use of __counted_by to fix the warning/error. However,
rather than remove it altogether, leave it commented, as it may be
possible to support this in future compiler releases.

Cc:  <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2026
Fixes: f34907ecca71 ("mxser: Annotate struct mxser_board with __counted_by")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240529-drop-counted-by-ports-mxser-board-v1-1-0ab217f4da6d@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/mxser.c b/drivers/tty/mxser.c
index 458bb1280ebf9d4d04e7fc291898b84e01cdd7e5..5b97e420a95f84e6faf452471d2a88118beed88f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/tty/mxser.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/mxser.c
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ struct mxser_board {
        enum mxser_must_hwid must_hwid;
        speed_t max_baud;
 
-       struct mxser_port ports[] __counted_by(nports);
+       struct mxser_port ports[] /* __counted_by(nports) */;
 };
 
 static DECLARE_BITMAP(mxser_boards, MXSER_BOARDS);