From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ivajlo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ивайло Димитров" <freemangordon@abv.bg>,
pali.rohar@gmail.com, sre@ring0.de, pavel@ucw.cz,
omar.ramirez@copitl.com, tony@atomide.com,
felipe.contreras@gmail.com, s-anna@ti.com, nm@ti.com,
ohad@wizery.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Staging: tidspbridge: disable driver
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 08:20:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131130162023.GB15077@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6662B6F95D1C4783A007CAC82A8DA641@ivogl>
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 11:58:23AM +0200, Ivajlo Dimitrov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (re-sending in plain text, sorry for the noise)
>
> commit
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=930ba4a374b96560ef9fde2145cdc454a164ddcc
> disables tidspbridge driver for the reasons it has a security bug and there
> is no active maintainer.
> I was following the development of that driver for a bit and my impression
> was that the reason it is
> still in staging is this
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg84115.html . And as dmtimer
> driver is on its way to be merged upstream(or was it already merged?) I was
> planning to work on
> tidspbridge driver to fix it and send the patches. I also have a couple of
> another small patches
> ready to be send.
> However, could you elaborate on the "security bug" so I can try to fix it
> and send the patch?
> Also, what needs to be done for the tidspdriver to get out of staging as it
> seems that what I
> though initially is incorrect.
There is also the very long TODO list in drivers/staging/tidspbridge/
What is the progression on that?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-30 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-30 9:58 Staging: tidspbridge: disable driver Ivajlo Dimitrov
2013-11-30 16:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-11-30 17:27 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-11-30 19:19 ` Pavel Machek
2013-11-30 19:49 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-11-30 20:42 ` [patch] Staging: tidspbridge: make mmap root-only so it is not a security problem Pavel Machek
2013-11-30 22:05 ` Greg KH
2013-11-30 22:58 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-01 3:45 ` Greg KH
2013-12-01 9:47 ` Pali Rohár
2013-12-01 11:26 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-01 11:33 ` Pali Rohár
2013-12-01 9:41 ` Pali Rohár
2013-12-01 9:58 ` Ивайло Димитров
2013-12-01 12:10 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-01 12:27 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-12-01 18:14 ` Ivajlo Dimitrov
2013-12-01 18:57 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-01 19:28 ` Dan Carpenter
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