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From: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmciro.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: Taint the kernel if debugfs is used to write directly to CODECs
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:56:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294581418.4472.146.camel@odin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294329950-3881-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmciro.com>

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 16:05 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Since direct register writes may confuse the drivers and are supposed
> to be used only in diagnostic situations discourage their use in
> production by tainting the kernel when we do a write.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmciro.com>
> ---
>  sound/soc/soc-core.c |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-core.c b/sound/soc/soc-core.c
> index a233607..dbca5023 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/soc-core.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/soc-core.c
> @@ -209,6 +209,10 @@ static ssize_t codec_reg_write_file(struct file *file,
>  		start++;
>  	if (strict_strtoul(start, 16, &value))
>  		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	/* Userspace has been fiddling around behind the kernel's back */
> +	add_taint(TAINT_USER);
> +
>  	snd_soc_write(codec, reg, value);
>  	return buf_size;
>  }

Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
-- 
Freelance Developer, SlimLogic Ltd
ASoC and Voltage Regulator Maintainer.
http://www.slimlogic.co.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-09 13:57 UTC|newest]

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2011-01-06 16:05 [PATCH] ASoC: Taint the kernel if debugfs is used to write directly to CODECs Mark Brown
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