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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.ubsan')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan index 0e04fcb3ab3d..9deb655838b0 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan @@ -5,11 +5,25 @@ config ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL config UBSAN bool "Undefined behaviour sanity checker" help - This option enables undefined behaviour sanity checker + This option enables the Undefined Behaviour sanity checker. Compile-time instrumentation is used to detect various undefined - behaviours in runtime. Various types of checks may be enabled - via boot parameter ubsan_handle - (see: Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst). + behaviours at runtime. For more details, see: + Documentation/dev-tools/ubsan.rst + +config UBSAN_TRAP + bool "On Sanitizer warnings, abort the running kernel code" + depends on UBSAN + depends on $(cc-option, -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error) + help + Building kernels with Sanitizer features enabled tends to grow + the kernel size by around 5%, due to adding all the debugging + text on failure paths. To avoid this, Sanitizer instrumentation + can just issue a trap. This reduces the kernel size overhead but + turns all warnings (including potentially harmless conditions) + into full exceptions that abort the running kernel code + (regardless of context, locks held, etc), which may destabilize + the system. For some system builders this is an acceptable + trade-off. config UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL bool "Enable instrumentation for the entire kernel" |