Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754942AbcKYOtb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:49:31 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33244 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754902AbcKYOtV (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:49:21 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20161124201939.GA3782@isilmar-4.linta.de> References: <20161124201939.GA3782@isilmar-4.linta.de> <20161123192143.GA482@light.dominikbrodowski.net> <20161122061233.GA4762@light.dominikbrodowski.net> <20161116222731.563fb85e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <147933283664.19316.12454053022687659937.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <26173.1479769852@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <8342.1479905906@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <30473.1480008885@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: Dominik Brodowski Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, matthew.garrett@nebula.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lock down drivers that can have io ports, io mem, irqs and dma changed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <7957.1480085346.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:49:06 +0000 Message-ID: <7958.1480085346@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.25]); Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:49:09 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 429 Lines: 12 Dominik Brodowski wrote: > For most cases, request_firmware() is being used -- for some rare cases, > however, this alternative interface is provided for. It should be pretty > safe nowadays to make pccard_cis_attr read-only (and who uses PCMCIA > nowadays anyway?). Have a look at the top patch here: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=efi-lock-down David