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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev, Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Qing Zhao <qing.zhao@oracle.com>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>, Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>,
	llvm@lists.linux.dev, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1 1506/1887] Compiler Attributes: Add __counted_by macro
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:00:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261028170533.732273353@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261028170459.200466217@linuxfoundation.org>

6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

[ Upstream commit dd06e72e68bcb4070ef211be100d2896e236c8fb ]

In an effort to annotate all flexible array members with their run-time
size information, the "element_count" attribute is being introduced by
Clang[1] and GCC[2] in future releases. This annotation will provide
the CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE features the ability
to perform run-time bounds checking on otherwise unknown-size flexible
arrays.

Even though the attribute is under development, we can start the
annotation process in the kernel. This requires defining a macro for
it, even if we have to change the name of the actual attribute later.
Since it is likely that this attribute may change its name to "counted_by"
in the future (to better align with a future total bytes "sized_by"
attribute), name the wrapper macro "__counted_by", which also reads more
clearly (and concisely) in structure definitions.

[1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D148381
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108896

Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Qing Zhao <qing.zhao@oracle.com>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230517190841.gonna.796-kees@kernel.org
Stable-dep-of: 7e07d3e4c389 ("usb: gadget: f_midi: initialize work in f_midi_alloc()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/compiler_attributes.h | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
index b9778e13b0a08..2ecc58fdfe4fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
@@ -144,6 +144,19 @@
 # define __designated_init
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Optional: only supported since gcc >= 14
+ * Optional: only supported since clang >= 17
+ *
+ *   gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108896
+ * clang: https://reviews.llvm.org/D148381
+ */
+#if __has_attribute(__element_count__)
+# define __counted_by(member)		__attribute__((__element_count__(#member)))
+#else
+# define __counted_by(member)
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Optional: only supported since clang >= 14.0
  *
-- 
2.53.0




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