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authorChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>2016-09-12 14:37:19 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2016-09-20 14:26:08 +0200
commit725c4d22bbc4fcac5779963e0ff9cdf232afbb90 (patch)
treeaa31d4784fc88800c8c26d18ecf90efa59480ee2 /lib
parentf296190e41ee1e1e6912f0ddae09b28e9cfae48d (diff)
downloadlinux-725c4d22bbc4fcac5779963e0ff9cdf232afbb90.tar.gz
ubsan: allow to disable the null sanitizer
Some architectures use a hardware defined structure at address zero.
Checking for a null pointer will result in many ubsan reports.
Allow users to disable the null sanitizer.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.ubsan11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
index 39494af9a84a..bc6e651df68c 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.ubsan
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 config ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
 	bool
 
+config ARCH_WANTS_UBSAN_NO_NULL
+	def_bool n
+
 config UBSAN
 	bool "Undefined behaviour sanity checker"
 	help
@@ -34,3 +37,11 @@ config UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
 	  This option enables detection of unaligned memory accesses.
 	  Enabling this option on architectures that support unaligned
 	  accesses may produce a lot of false positives.
+
+config UBSAN_NULL
+	bool "Enable checking of null pointers"
+	depends on UBSAN
+	default y if !ARCH_WANTS_UBSAN_NO_NULL
+	help
+	  This option enables detection of memory accesses via a
+	  null pointer.