[PATCH] pinctrl: samsung: Suppress unbinding to prevent theoretical attacks
Linus Walleij
linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu May 26 02:08:42 PDT 2016
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<k.kozlowski at 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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