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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	russ.dill@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: serial: Perform verification for FTDI FT232R devices
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:19:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141023111927.GD6641@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141023121815.1d8ef21d@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk>

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:18:15PM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > >  drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > >  drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.h |  41 ++++++++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Funny patch, you should have saved it for April 1, otherwise people
> > might have actually taken this seriously :)
> > 
> > Patches as performance art, now I've seen everything...
> 
> Chuckle. Sillyness aside a pure detection version of that patch might be
> useful so it can warn users "Running Windows may damage your adapter" 8)
> 
> Is the 0x0000, 0x0401 they end up with consistent - can we add that to the
> default table so end users can at least make use of devices that have
> been attacked by malware ?

Way ahead of you. ;)

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=141405129201389&w=2

Johan

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-23 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-23  8:52 [PATCH] usb: serial: Perform verification for FTDI FT232R devices russ.dill
2014-10-23  9:40 ` Greg KH
2014-10-23  9:53   ` Frans Klaver
2014-10-23 11:18   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-10-23 11:19     ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2014-10-23 12:55     ` Mark Brown
2014-10-27 10:58 ` Oliver Neukum
2014-10-27 11:09 ` Oliver Neukum
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-23 12:44 Hector Martin
2014-10-23 14:14 ` Russ Dill
2014-10-23 17:05   ` Hector Martin
2014-10-24  6:22   ` Perry Hung

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