From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk (Ben Hutchings) Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:33:58 +0000 Subject: [cip-dev] [PATCH 4.4-cip 02/23] ubsan: cosmetic fix to Kconfig text In-Reply-To: <1481243545.1860.156.camel@codethink.co.uk> References: <1481243545.1860.156.camel@codethink.co.uk> Message-ID: <1481243638.1860.158.camel@codethink.co.uk> To: cip-dev@lists.cip-project.org List-Id: cip-dev.lists.cip-project.org From: Yang Shi commit 7707535ab95e2231b6d7f2bfb4f27558e83c4dc2 upstream. When enabling UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL, the kernel image size gets increased significantly (~3x). So, it sounds better to have some note in Kconfig. And, fixed a typo. Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- lib/Kconfig.ubsan | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan index 49518fb48cab..e07c1ba9ba13 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ config UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL This option activates instrumentation for the entire kernel. If you don't enable this option, you have to explicitly specify UBSAN_SANITIZE := y for the files/directories you want to check for UB. + Enabling this option will get kernel image size increased + significantly. config UBSAN_ALIGNMENT bool "Enable checking of pointers alignment" @@ -25,5 +27,5 @@ config UBSAN_ALIGNMENT default y if !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS help This option enables detection of unaligned memory accesses. - Enabling this option on architectures that support unalligned + Enabling this option on architectures that support unaligned accesses may produce a lot of false positives. -- 2.10.2 -- Ben Hutchings Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.