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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1601211617380.18746@gjva.wvxbf.pm>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:18:05 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
cc:	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Greg KH wrote:

> Except for those drivers that abuse the HID interface due to the 
> decisions the Windows developers made years ago, and are not reall HID 
> devices, those should all be done in userspace, just like Windows does. 
> Hopefully we have been good in keeping those types of drivers out of the 
> kernel.

This has been one of the motivations for creating hidraw interface. So my 
hope here is that we're doing reasonably well in this respect.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs