Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2016-05-27

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

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
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