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Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: samsung: Suppress unbinding to prevent theoretical attacks

From Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: samsung: Suppress unbinding to prevent theoretical attacks
Date 2016-05-26 11:10 +0200
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On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<k.kozlowski@samsung.com> wrote:

> Although unbinding a pinctrl driver requires root privileges but it
> still might be used theoretically in certain attacks (by triggering NULL
> pointer exception or memory corruption).

Patch applied with Javier's review tag.

I suspect this kind of patch should be done to a few
GPIO controller :/

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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[PATCH] pinctrl: samsung: Suppress unbinding to prevent theoretical  attacks Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com> - 2016-05-17 08:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: samsung: Suppress unbinding to prevent  theoretical attacks Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> - 2016-05-21 04:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: samsung: Suppress unbinding to prevent  theoretical attacks Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-05-26 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: samsung: Suppress unbinding to prevent  theoretical attacks Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com> - 2016-05-27 10:50 +0200

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