On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 01:57:17PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > > > Because of a sanity check in virtio_dev_remove, a buggy device can crash > > kernel. And in case of rproc it's userspace so it's not a good idea. > > We are unloading a driver so how bad can it be? > > Be less aggressive in handling this error: if it's a driver bug, > > warning once should be enough. > > > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> > > > > -- > > > > 3.6 material? > > I have already applied, this, but it's not for stable, since it's a > "theoretical bugfix". That check has been in there forever and noone > AFAIK has actually struck it. > > Cheers, > Rusty.
Yes but can't malicious userspace trigger this with remoteproc? If yes it's not a question of whether anyone has struck it since people don't normally run malicious userspace :) -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
