Re: [GIT PULL] x86/asm for v2.6.33

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Dec 04 2009 - 00:26:43 EST


On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:31:43 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Linus,
>
> Please pull the latest x86-asm-for-linus git tree from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
> x86-asm-for-linus
>
> The most user visible change here is the (default disabled)
> CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS security feature, which uses
> __builtin_object_size() to validate copy_from_user accesses.
>

just FYI; this config option will start generating warnings; I've
killed many of those, but those patches have gone via the various
maintainer trees so may come in a few days later in the merge window.


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