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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>2009-10-02 07:50:50 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-02 19:01:42 +0200
commit63312b6a6faae3f2e5577f2b001e3b504f10a2aa (patch)
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parent4a3127693001c61a21d1ce680db6340623f52e93 (diff)
downloadlinux-63312b6a6faae3f2e5577f2b001e3b504f10a2aa.tar.bz2
x86: Add a Kconfig option to turn the copy_from_user warnings into errors
For automated testing it is useful to have the option to turn the warnings on copy_from_user() etc checks into errors: In function ‘copy_from_user’, inlined from ‘fd_copyin’ at drivers/block/floppy.c:3080, inlined from ‘fd_ioctl’ at drivers/block/floppy.c:3503: linux/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:213: error: call to ‘copy_from_user_overflow’ declared with attribute error: copy_from_user buffer size is not provably correct Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20091002075050.4e9f7641@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index d105f29bb6bb..1bd2e36f1538 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -287,4 +287,18 @@ config OPTIMIZE_INLINING
If unsure, say N.
+config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
+ bool "Strict copy size checks"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ ---help---
+ Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
+ copy operations into compile time failures.
+
+ The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
+ are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
+ the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
+ within bounds.
+
+ If unsure, or if you run an older (pre 4.4) gcc, say N.
+
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