1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 82fbc49728df..7dbd5d9c29a4 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -653,6 +653,21 @@ config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
           This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
           performance, say N.
 
+config DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
+        bool "Debug credential management"
+        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+        help
+          Enable this to turn on some debug checking for credential
+          management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of
+          pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to
+          see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred
+          struct.
+
+          Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, this also checks that the
+          security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.
+
+          If unsure, say N.
+
 #
 # Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it
 # it is preferred to always offer frame pointers as a config