[Maverick] request: CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS

[Kees Cook]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 03:40:12PM -0700, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 15:35 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Could we enable this test, just to be safer during compiles? It won't
> > affect run-time, it just forces the build to be safer, IIUC:
> 
> I wouldn't be opposed to enabling this, but at the moment doing so
> results in build failures.  If you have time, care to send a patch to
> fix up this build failures?  Otherwise, can you file a bug for us to
> track this request.

Weird. I just did a test build and didn't see any failures (I also didn't
see these warnings in prior released builds -- which is why I asked to turn
it on actually). Can you point me to the failures you ran into?

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team