linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] parport_pc: remove ancient, overeager quirk that disables EPP support on many chipsets

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:41:56 +0200
From:	Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@...il.com>
To:	Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@...xarxa.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Adam Baker <linux@...er-net.org.uk>,
	linux-parport@...ts.infradead.org, 630593@...s.debian.org,
	Nicos Gollan <gollan@...ormatik.uni-kl.de>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@....cs.msu.su>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] parport_pc: remove ancient, overeager quirk that
 disables EPP support on many chipsets

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
<leo@...xarxa.net> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> sorry for the noise and my mistake. The patch...
>
> there's a bug in the parport module that have been reported (in another
> places) some time ago [1]. Also, this bug was reported at Redhat [2], but
> nobody follow the report and it was closed.
>
> As Adam Baker said [1] :
>
> <quote>
> A long time ago (~ 10 years), Intel produced a chipset that

Why not check dmi years for this test and do the test only for board
before 2000 ? Better safe than sorry

Bastien



> included broken EPP support. The Linux parport driver was written to detect
> such a chipset and disable EPP support on it. Unfortunately the test that was
> written gives false positives for many current chipsets and no-one seems to
> know exactly what the problem hardware was, let alone have a sample of it to
> see if a better test can be written. After such a long time it is probably
> appropriate to just remove the test (on average it does more harm than good)
> however you are correct in asserting the driver is unmaintained so no-one is
> bothering to fix it.
> </quote>
>
> I have applied the patch to the standard debian kernel and vanilla kernels and
> runs perfectly. The patch simply erases a check. Applied to some Dell
> hardware, now the EPP mode is detected and, after some initial tests it's
> working.
>
> Please, apply the patch.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Leo
>
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-parport/2008-March/000628.html
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284471
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Adam Baker <linux at baker-net.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@...xarxa.net>
>
>
> ---
>
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/