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Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs

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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 04:32:08PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> As for USB descriptors, I'm somewhat more hopeful about hardening.  At
> the same time, it seems like it should be practical to put more low-
> performance USB drivers into userspace.

What drivers do we currently have in the kernel that should/could be
done in userspace instead?  I'll gladly drop them from the tree.

And yes, we need to do better about handling crazy USB descriptors, I
think the majority of this work is already done, but it takes
hand-auditing to verify it :(

thanks,

greg k-h

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2015 kernel CVEs Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2016-01-19 14:40 +0100
  Re: 2015 kernel CVEs One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-19 16:00 +0100
  Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-19 17:40 +0100
    Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-01-19 19:00 +0100
      Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-20 18:10 +0100
        Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-01-20 19:10 +0100
          Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-01-21 17:10 +0100
          Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-21 19:50 +0100
  Re: 2015 kernel CVEs Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2016-01-19 18:00 +0100
    Re: 2015 kernel CVEs Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 2016-01-19 18:10 +0100
      Re: 2015 kernel CVEs Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-01-19 19:00 +0100
        Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: 2015 kernel CVEs Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> - 2016-01-20 08:20 +0100
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    Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> - 2016-01-20 21:20 +0100
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