linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy fixes for v4.8-rc6-part2

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Date:   Wed, 7 Sep 2016 12:15:52 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vinson Lee <vlee@...edesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy fixes for v4.8-rc6-part2

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> - move page-spanning check behind a CONFIG since it's triggering false positives

Hmm. I pulled this, but looking at it I realized that

+       depends on !COMPILE_TEST

doesn't make any real sense to me.

All it does is make sure that "make allmodconfig" doesn't actually
test that the PAGESPAN code compiles.

It's not like that is a big cost for allmodconfig builds, but it does
mean that it gets less coverage.

And it really makes no sense to me. We *don't* want to run with that
option enabled normally.

I think what you actually meant was something like

+       depends on EXPERT

which means that it does *not* get enabled in normal user builds.

Hmm?

                  Linus