Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jun 2020 15:29:15 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Restrict the untrusted devices, to bind to only a set of "whitelisted" drivers |
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 05:57:02AM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote: > > So please, in summary: > > - don't think this is some new type of thing, it's an old issue > > transferred to yet-another-hardware-bus. Not to say this is > > not important, just please look at the work that others have > > done in the past to help mitigate and solve this (reading the > > Wireless USB spec should help you out here too, as they > > detailed all of this.) > > - do copy what USB did, by moving that logic into the driver > > core so that all busses who want to take advantage of this > > type of functionality, easily can do so. > > Understood, will keep that in mind. I may first present a "PCI > subsystem only" draft just to get a feel for it, since that is more > familiar to me and also already has some bits and pieces we need for > this.
Why? Do it right the first time. To waste reviewer's time on something that you know you have to throw away and do it "correctly" again, is not very nice. I know I would put you on the bottom of my "patches to review" list if you did that to me :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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