linux/arch/sparc
Stephen Boyd 446f24d119 Kconfig: consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
The help text for this config is duplicated across the x86, parisc, and
s390 Kconfig.debug files.  Arnd Bergman noted that the help text was
slightly misleading and should be fixed to state that enabling this
option isn't a problem when using pre 4.4 gcc.

To simplify the rewording, consolidate the text into lib/Kconfig.debug
and modify it there to be more explicit about when you should say N to
this config.

Also, make the text a bit more generic by stating that this option
enables compile time checks so we can cover architectures which emit
warnings vs.  ones which emit errors.  The details of how an
architecture decided to implement the checks isn't as important as the
concept of compile time checking of copy_from_user() calls.

While we're doing this, remove all the copy_from_user_overflow() code
that's duplicated many times and place it into lib/ so that any
architecture supporting this option can get the function for free.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:09 -07:00
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boot sparc: Fix piggyback with newer binutils. 2012-12-03 11:24:25 -08:00
configs perf: Remove PERF_COUNTERS config option 2012-04-26 13:52:52 +02:00
crypto sparc64: Set CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP consistently in CAMELLIA code. 2012-12-19 15:44:31 -08:00
include Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-04-30 07:50:17 -07:00
kernel dump_stack: unify debug information printed by show_regs() 2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
lib Kconfig: consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS 2013-04-30 17:04:09 -07:00
math-emu sparc64: Make montmul/montsqr/mpmul usable in 32-bit threads. 2012-10-26 15:18:37 -07:00
mm sparse-vmemmap: specify vmemmap population range in bytes 2013-04-29 15:54:35 -07:00
net sparc: bpf_jit_comp: add VLAN instructions for BPF JIT 2012-11-06 17:41:42 -05:00
oprofile sparc: using HZ needs an include of linux/param.h 2009-10-05 00:46:08 -07:00
prom sparc32: Remove superfluous extern declarations for prom_*() functions 2012-06-27 01:27:45 -07:00
Kbuild sparc64: Add SHA1 driver making use of the 'sha1' instruction. 2012-08-20 15:08:49 -07:00
Kconfig idle: Remove GENERIC_IDLE_LOOP config switch 2013-04-17 10:39:38 +02:00
Kconfig.debug lib: consolidate DEBUG_STACK_USAGE option 2011-05-25 08:39:54 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-05-21 19:43:57 -07:00