From: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Restrict the untrusted devices, to bind to only a set of "whitelisted" drivers
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 13:08:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200701110813.GA11023@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200701105714.GA2098169@kroah.com>
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Hi!
> > > Yes, it originally was designed that way, but again, the world has
> > > changed so we have to change with it. That is why USB has for a long
> > > time now, allowed you to not bind drivers to devices that you do not
> > > "trust", and that trust can be determined by userspace. That all came
> > > about thanks to the work done by the wireless USB spec people and kernel
> > > authors, which showed that maybe you just don't want to trust any device
> > > that comes within range of your system :)
> >
> > Again, not disagreeing; but note the scale here.
> >
> > It is mandatory to defend against malicious wireless USB devices.
>
> Turns out there are no more wireless USB devices in the world, and the
> code for that is gone from Linux :)
>
> > We probably should work on robustness against malicious USB devices.
>
> We are, and do have, that support today.
>
> > Malicious PCI-express devices are lot less of concern.
>
> Not really, they are a lot of concern to some people. Valid attacks are
> out there today, see the thunderbolt attacks that numerous people have
> done and published recently and for many years.
In this case PCI-express meant internal cards in PCs. Yes, thunderbolt
would be higher concern than internal card.
> > Defending against malicious CPU/RAM does not make much sense.
>
> That's what the spectre and rowhammer fixes have been for :)
Yeah, and that's why we have whitelist of working CPUs and only work
on those, riiight? :-). [There's difference between "malicious" and
"buggy".]
Pavel
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-01 23:07 [RFC] Restrict the untrusted devices, to bind to only a set of "whitelisted" drivers Rajat Jain
2020-05-04 11:47 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-05-04 11:59 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2020-05-04 19:17 ` Rajat Jain
2020-05-05 12:33 ` Mika Westerberg
2020-05-06 18:51 ` Rajat Jain
2020-05-11 20:31 ` Rajat Jain
2020-05-13 15:19 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-05-13 21:26 ` Rajat Jain
2020-05-14 13:42 ` Mika Westerberg
2020-05-14 19:12 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-05-15 2:18 ` Rajat Jain
2020-05-26 16:30 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-01 23:25 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-06-02 5:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-03 2:27 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-03 6:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-03 11:51 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-03 12:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-03 12:57 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-03 13:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-04 19:38 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-05 8:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-06 1:08 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-07 11:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-08 17:03 ` Jesse Barnes
2020-06-08 17:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-08 18:29 ` Jesse Barnes
2020-06-08 18:41 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-09 9:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-30 21:46 ` Pavel Machek
2020-06-09 5:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-30 21:45 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-01 6:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-01 8:47 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-01 10:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-01 11:08 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2020-06-09 21:04 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-06-09 23:23 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-10 0:04 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-06-10 0:30 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-10 20:17 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-10 23:09 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-06-10 23:01 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-06-10 23:46 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-10 7:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-10 1:34 ` Oliver O'Halloran
2020-06-10 19:57 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-16 1:24 ` Rajat Jain
2020-06-10 7:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-05-15 12:44 ` Joerg Roedel
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