Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 21:12:27 +0000
From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware
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On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:02:26 +0000
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > Also, I think Alan's comment about it the last time it came up was more like
> > a "look at all of the other ways you could do bad things to hardware!"
> > comment, not a "you need to also do this thing too!" type of request.  


In all honesty I think both need to go in together, otherwise the first
patch is useless. It's not a case of "oh there may be another obscure
exploit .." , this is "I can automate it with a python script, post a
CVE, and show I'm awesome" 8)

Alan