Re: [RFC] Restrict the untrusted devices, to bind to only a set of "whitelisted" drivers

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 05:57:02AM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> > So please, in summary:
> >         - don't think this is some new type of thing, it's an old issue
> >           transferred to yet-another-hardware-bus.  Not to say this is
> >           not important, just please look at the work that others have
> >           done in the past to help mitigate and solve this (reading the
> >           Wireless USB spec should help you out here too, as they
> >           detailed all of this.)
> >         - do copy what USB did, by moving that logic into the driver
> >           core so that all busses who want to take advantage of this
> >           type of functionality, easily can do so.
> 
> Understood, will keep that in mind. I may first present a "PCI
> subsystem only" draft just to get a feel for it, since that is more
> familiar to me and also already has some bits and pieces we need for
> this.

Why?  Do it right the first time.  To waste reviewer's time on something
that you know you have to throw away and do it "correctly" again, is not
very nice.  I know I would put you on the bottom of my "patches to
review" list if you did that to me :)

thanks,

greg k-h