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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug b/arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug index 90d5fe223a7..9d3c889718a 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug @@ -33,4 +33,18 @@ config FRAME_POINTER depends on MCOUNT default y +config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS + bool "Strict copy size checks" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING + ---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. + endmenu |