From 63312b6a6faae3f2e5577f2b001e3b504f10a2aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 07:50:50 -0700 Subject: x86: Add a Kconfig option to turn the copy_from_user warnings into errors MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton LKML-Reference: <20091002075050.4e9f7641@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h | 1 + include/linux/compiler.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h index f1709c1..77542c5 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h @@ -41,4 +41,5 @@ #define __compiletime_object_size(obj) __builtin_object_size(obj, 0) #if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4 #define __compiletime_warning(message) __attribute__((warning(message))) +#define __compiletime_error(message) __attribute__((error(message))) #endif diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index 9503563..88fd4b6 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -273,6 +273,9 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect); #ifndef __compiletime_warning # define __compiletime_warning(message) #endif +#ifndef __compiletime_error +# define __compiletime_error(message) +#endif /* * Prevent the compiler from merging or refetching accesses. The compiler -- cgit v1.1