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: f34907ec ("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.orgSigned-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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