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>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

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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