From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: russ.dill@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: serial: Perform verification for FTDI FT232R devices
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:18:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141023121815.1d8ef21d@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141023094053.GA30334@kroah.com>
> > drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.h | 41 ++++++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Funny patch, you should have saved it for April 1, otherwise people
> might have actually taken this seriously :)
>
> Patches as performance art, now I've seen everything...
Chuckle. Sillyness aside a pure detection version of that patch might be
useful so it can warn users "Running Windows may damage your adapter" 8)
Is the 0x0000, 0x0401 they end up with consistent - can we add that to the
default table so end users can at least make use of devices that have
been attacked by malware ?
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-23 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-23 8:52 [PATCH] usb: serial: Perform verification for FTDI FT232R devices russ.dill
2014-10-23 9:40 ` Greg KH
2014-10-23 9:53 ` Frans Klaver
2014-10-23 11:18 ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2014-10-23 11:19 ` Johan Hovold
2014-10-23 12:55 ` Mark Brown
2014-10-27 10:58 ` Oliver Neukum
2014-10-27 11:09 ` Oliver Neukum
2014-10-23 12:44 Hector Martin
2014-10-23 14:14 ` Russ Dill
2014-10-23 17:05 ` Hector Martin
2014-10-24 6:22 ` Perry Hung
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