On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:43:05AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > I don't see any point in talking about "untrusted drivers". If a > driver isn't trusted then it doesn't belong in your kernel. Period. > When you load a driver into your kernel, you are implicitly trusting > it (aside from limitations imposed by security modules). Trusting it to do what? Historically a ton of drivers did not validate input from devices they drive. Most still don't. > The code > it contains, the module_init code in particular, runs with full > superuser permissions. -- MST
