Hi,

2016-05-17 16:26 GMT+09:00 Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>:
> Although unbinding a driver requires root privileges but it still might
> be used theoretically in certain attacks (by triggering NULL pointer
> exception or memory corruption if driver does not provide proper remove
> callbacks or core does not handle it).
>
> Samsung clock drivers are essential for system operation so their
> removal is not expected. More over, the Exynos3250 ISP clock driver does
> not implement remove() driver callback and it is not buildable as
> modules.
>
> Suppress the unbind interface for Exynos3250 ISP and S3C2410 DCLK clock
> drivers.
>
> Suggested-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos3250.c   | 1 +
>  drivers/clk/samsung/clk-s3c2410-dclk.c | 5 +++--
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Makes sense. (By the way, I wonder if we ever see a solution for the
unbind problem with .remove implemented and some resources that can't
be released at the time .unbind is attempted...)

Acked-by: Tomasz Figa <[email protected]>

Best regards,
Tomasz

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