[PATCH] pinctrl: samsung: Suppress unbinding to prevent theoretical attacks
From: Linus Walleij <hidden>
Date: 2016-05-26 09:08:46
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linux-gpio, linux-samsung-soc, lkml
From: Linus Walleij <hidden>
Date: 2016-05-26 09:08:46
Also in:
linux-gpio, linux-samsung-soc, lkml
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski [off-list ref] 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