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| author | Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> | 2026-03-18 17:20:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> | 2026-03-20 11:51:48 -0700 |
| commit | 7a618ca9b9c4769fc5adf7344bb1dd98f823da22 (patch) | |
| tree | 71e7d02e7d9bb9cc21748b52dacb34168a70f812 | |
| parent | 1c7bbaeed110b0fd9e65e173fb4d612f64a20d93 (diff) | |
init/Kconfig: Require a release version of clang-22 for CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY_PTR
Commit 150a04d817d8 ("compiler_types.h: Attributes: Add __counted_by_ptr
macro") used Clang 22.0.0 as a minimum supported version for
__counted_by_ptr, which made sense while 22.0.0 was the version of
LLVM's main branch to allow developers to easily test and develop uses
of __counted_by_ptr in their code. However, __counted_by_ptr requires a
change [1] merged towards the end of the 22 development cycle to avoid
errors when applied to void pointers.
In file included from fs/xfs/xfs_attr_inactive.c:18:
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.h:59:2: error: 'counted_by' cannot be applied to a pointer with pointee of unknown size because 'void' is an incomplete type
59 | void *buffer __counted_by_ptr(bufsize);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is disruptive for deployed prerelease clang-22 builds (such as
Android LLVM) or when bisecting between llvmorg-21-init and the fix.
Require a released version of clang-22 (i.e., 21.1.0 or newer) to
enabled __counted_by_ptr to ensure all fixes needed for proper support
are present.
Fixes: 150a04d817d8 ("compiler_types.h: Attributes: Add __counted_by_ptr macro")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/f29955a594aedf5943d492a999b83e8c6b8fafae [1]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318-counted_by_ptr-release-clang-22-v1-1-e017da246df0@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index b55deae9256c..399c0ed3b4a9 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ config CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY config CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY_PTR bool # supported since clang 22 - default y if CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 220000 + default y if CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 220100 # supported since gcc 16.0.0 default y if CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION >= 160000 |