From b9ab5ebb14ec389bd80f66613f1fe3f8f65f2521 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:22:42 -0600 Subject: 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 Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Chris J Arges Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Pedro Alves Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/92baab69a6bf9bc7043af0bfca9fb964a1d45546.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b