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ubsan: cosmetic fix to Kconfig text
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When enabling UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL, the kernel image size gets increased
significantly (~3x).  So, it sounds better to have some note in Kconfig.

And, fixed a typo.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yang Shi authored and torvalds committed Feb 12, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -18,12 +18,14 @@ config UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
This option activates instrumentation for the entire kernel.
If you don't enable this option, you have to explicitly specify
UBSAN_SANITIZE := y for the files/directories you want to check for UB.
Enabling this option will get kernel image size increased
significantly.

config UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
bool "Enable checking of pointers alignment"
depends on UBSAN
default y if !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
help
This option enables detection of unaligned memory accesses.
Enabling this option on architectures that support unalligned
Enabling this option on architectures that support unaligned
accesses may produce a lot of false positives.

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