linux-kernel - Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs

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Message-ID: <20160119175409.GB7485@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:54:09 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 04:32:08PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> As for USB descriptors, I'm somewhat more hopeful about hardening.  At
> the same time, it seems like it should be practical to put more low-
> performance USB drivers into userspace.

What drivers do we currently have in the kernel that should/could be
done in userspace instead?  I'll gladly drop them from the tree.

And yes, we need to do better about handling crazy USB descriptors, I
think the majority of this work is already done, but it takes
hand-auditing to verify it :(

thanks,

greg k-h