linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [media] zoran: do not use kmalloc for memory mapped to userspace

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:22:46 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>
Cc:	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] zoran: do not use kmalloc for memory mapped to
 userspace

On Thu 21-01-16 09:29:18, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi,
> I am sending this offlist for the review because this has security

Ups, forgot to update this. This went offlist before but Hans has noted
that it can go public because the number of users of this old HW is so
limitted that any potential security concerns are basically moot.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs