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A previous patch added the buffer size check to copy_from_user(). One of the things learned from analyzing the result of the previous patch is that in general, gcc is really good at proving that the code contains sufficient security checks to not need to do a runtime check. But that for those cases where gcc could not prove this, there was a relatively high percentage of real security issues. This patch turns the case of "gcc cannot prove" into a compile time warning, as long as a sufficiently new gcc is in use that supports this. The objective is that these warnings will trigger developers checking new cases out before a security hole enters a linux kernel release. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <20090930130523.348ae6c4@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
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