Re: [PATCH] [v2] docs: clarify security-bugs disclosure policy

On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:46:24 -0800 Dave Hansen wrote: > From: Dave Hansen > > I think we need to soften the language a bit. It might scare folks > off, especially the: > >We prefer to fully disclose the bug as soon as

Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] tty: add a poll() callback in struct tty_operations

> That would cut it, but TIOCPKT is too coupled with having a linked tty. > I could make acm behave like a pty (accept TIOCPKT and issue the > ctrl_status bits), but for that I need n_tty to know that packet does > not always mean a linked tty is present, and that in case it isn't we > take our

Re: [PATCH 6/8] usb: gadget: f_acm: add an ioctl to get the current line coding

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 20:26:13 +0300 Tal Shorer wrote: > The user can issue USB_F_GET_LINE_CODING to get the current line coding > as set by the host (or the default if unset yet). No this is not how to do it. We don't want weirdass ioctls for each different tty device type.

Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] tty: add a poll() callback in struct tty_operations

On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 09:52:07 +0300 Tal Shorer wrote: > If a tty driver wants to notify the user of some exceptional event, > such as a usb cdc acm device set_line_coding event, it needs a way to > modify the mask returned by poll() and possible also add wait queues. > In

Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8

On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 17:34 -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > Hey, > > Ok, I dug into this bug and I know what's going on. Unfortunately, > it's > a mess of a couple issues and I don't know what correct the > solution(s) > is(are). > > 1) The test we are looking at is overrunning the dynamic char

Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] watchdog: allow setting deadline for opening /dev/watchdogN

On Mon, 22 May 2017 16:06:36 +0200 Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > If a watchdog driver tells the framework that the device is running, > the framework takes care of feeding the watchdog until userspace opens > the device. If the userspace application which is supposed to

Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] tiocsti-restrict : Add owner user namespace to tty_struct

On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 01:15:11 -0400 Matt Brown wrote: > This patch adds struct user_namespace *owner_user_ns to the tty_struct. > Then it is set to current_user_ns() in the alloc_tty_struct function. > > This is done to facilitate capability checks against the original user >

Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] security: tty: make TIOCSTI ioctl require CAP_SYS_ADMIN

> There could be a few user programs that would be effected by this > change. > See: > notable programs are: agetty, csh, xemacs and tcsh > > However, I still believe that this change is worth it given that the > Kconfig defaults to n.