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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 77ebaa3dfa12..770a422a42e8 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1292,6 +1292,24 @@ config LATENCYTOP
Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
+config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
+ bool
+
+config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
+ bool "Strict user copy size checks"
+ depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
+ help
+ Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
+ copy operations into compile time failures.
+
+ The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
+ are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
+ the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
+ within bounds.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
source mm/Kconfig.debug
source kernel/trace/Kconfig