From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@inai.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Kalle Valo" <kvalo@kernel.org>,
"Oleksij Rempel" <linux@rempel-privat.de>,
"Maciej Żenczykowski" <maze@google.com>,
"Neil Armstrong" <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>,
"Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@kernel.org>,
"Andrzej Pietrasiewicz" <andrzejtp2010@gmail.com>,
"Jacopo Mondi" <jacopo@jmondi.org>,
"Łukasz Stelmach" <l.stelmach@samsung.com>,
"Laurent Pinchart" <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"Ilja Van Sprundel" <ivansprundel@ioactive.com>,
"Joseph Tartaro" <joseph.tartaro@ioactive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: disable all RNDIS protocol drivers
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:22:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5a92f9c-2d56-00fc-5e01-56e7df8dc1c1@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2023070430-fragment-remember-2fdd@gregkh>
On 04.07.23 08:47, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 11:11:57PM +0200, Enrico Mioso wrote:
>> Hi all!!
>>
>> I think the rndis_host USB driver might emit a warning in the dmesg, but disabling the driver wouldn't be a good idea.
>> The TP-Link MR6400 V1 LTE modem and also some ZTE modems integrated in routers do use this protocol.
>>
>> We may also distinguish between these cases and devices you might plug in - as they pose different risk levels.
>
> Again, you have to fully trust the other side of an RNDIS connection,
> any hints on how to have the kernel determine that?
Greg,
it is a network protocol. So this statement is kind of odd.
Are you saying that there are RNDIS messages that cannot be verified
for some reason, that still cannot be disclosed?
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-12 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-23 12:46 [PATCH] USB: disable all RNDIS protocol drivers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-11-23 14:20 ` Johannes Berg
2022-11-23 15:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-11-23 16:27 ` Johannes Berg
2023-01-10 22:47 ` James Hilliard
2022-11-23 15:21 ` Kalle Valo
2022-11-23 18:29 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-11-23 20:27 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2023-01-11 13:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2023-01-11 14:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-07-03 21:11 ` Enrico Mioso
2023-07-04 6:47 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-07-12 9:22 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2023-07-12 13:00 ` Johannes Berg
2023-07-12 16:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-07-13 0:28 ` Johannes Berg
2023-07-13 5:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-07-13 8:33 ` Oliver Neukum
2023-07-13 9:49 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2023-07-13 12:21 ` Johannes Berg
2023-07-13 5:21 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2022-11-23 15:40 Nicolas Cavallari
2022-11-23 15:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-11-24 0:58 ` Lars Melin
2022-11-29 22:48 ` Dan Williams
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