The help text for this config is duplicated across the x86, parisc, and
commit5b228787fddcebf8e0188d23390b8de55f9e0e8f
authorStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:47:27 +0000 (25 09:47 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:27:37 +0000 (31 14:27 +1000)
treebc28039e6ae163a40b902845ef1644301b5d7e76
parent1d990741f93ba4bf85b021f4711631b6618bcedf
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>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
17 files changed:
arch/parisc/Kconfig
arch/parisc/Kconfig.debug
arch/s390/Kconfig
arch/s390/Kconfig.debug
arch/s390/lib/Makefile
arch/sparc/lib/Makefile
arch/sparc/lib/usercopy.c [deleted file]
arch/tile/Kconfig
arch/tile/include/asm/uaccess.h
arch/tile/lib/uaccess.c
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c
arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c
lib/Kconfig.debug
lib/Makefile
lib/usercopy.c [moved from arch/s390/lib/usercopy.c with 100% similarity]