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Commit a0ee2ac0 authored by Krzysztof Kozlowski's avatar Krzysztof Kozlowski Committed by Linus Walleij
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pinctrl: samsung: Suppress unbinding to prevent theoretical attacks



Although unbinding a pinctrl driver requires root privileges but it
still might be used theoretically in certain attacks (by triggering NULL
pointer exception or memory corruption).

Samsung pincontrol drivers are essential for system operation so their
removal is not expected. They do not implement remove() driver callback
and they are not buildable as modules.

Suppression of the unbinding will prevent triggering NULL pointer
exception like this (Odroid XU3):

  $ echo 13400000.pinctrl > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/samsung-pinctrl/unbind
  $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000c44
  pgd = ec41c000
  [00000c44] *pgd=6d448835, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
  Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
    (samsung_gpio_get) from [<c034f9a0>] (gpiolib_seq_show+0x1b0/0x26c)
    (gpiolib_seq_show) from [<c01fb8c0>] (seq_read+0x304/0x4b8)
    (seq_read) from [<c02dbc78>] (full_proxy_read+0x4c/0x64)
    (full_proxy_read) from [<c01d9fb0>] (__vfs_read+0x2c/0x110)
    (__vfs_read) from [<c01db400>] (vfs_read+0x8c/0x110)
    (vfs_read) from [<c01db4c4>] (SyS_read+0x40/0x8c)
    (SyS_read) from [<c01078c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c)

Suggested-by: default avatarMarek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKrzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJavier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
parent 2f94ced7
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