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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2016-02-28 22:22:42 -0600
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-02-29 08:35:13 +0100
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objtool: Add CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option
Add a CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option which will run "objtool check" for each .o file to ensure the validity of its stack metadata. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/92baab69a6bf9bc7043af0bfca9fb964a1d45546.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 8bfd1aca7a3d..855265621863 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -342,6 +342,18 @@ config FRAME_POINTER
larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
+config STACK_VALIDATION
+ bool "Compile-time stack metadata validation"
+ depends on HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION
+ default n
+ help
+ Add compile-time checks to validate stack metadata, including frame
+ pointers (if CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled). This helps ensure
+ that runtime stack traces are more reliable.
+
+ For more information, see
+ tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
+
config DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU
bool "Force weak per-cpu definitions"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL