From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965636AbcAUQDS (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:03:18 -0500 Received: from twin.jikos.cz ([89.185.236.188]:34276 "EHLO twin.jikos.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965482AbcAUQDP (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:03:15 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 2692 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:03:15 EST Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:18:05 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina X-X-Sender: jikos@twin.jikos.cz To: Greg KH cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs In-Reply-To: <20160120180447.GA31532@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <20160119112812.GA10818@mwanda> <1453221128.3734.26.camel@decadent.org.uk> <20160119175409.GB7485@kroah.com> <1453309539.3734.52.camel@decadent.org.uk> <20160120180447.GA31532@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LRH 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Greg KH wrote: > Except for those drivers that abuse the HID interface due to the > decisions the Windows developers made years ago, and are not reall HID > devices, those should all be done in userspace, just like Windows does. > Hopefully we have been good in keeping those types of drivers out of the > kernel. This has been one of the motivations for creating hidraw interface. So my hope here is that we're doing reasonably well in this respect. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs