From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: "E. Oltmanns" <oltmanns@uni-bonn.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Oops during usb usage (2.6.5)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:17:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404270017.34478.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040426195359.GA29062@kroah.com>
Am Montag, 26. April 2004 21:53 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 01:06:15PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Just in general, if there is anything a non-root user can do to crash
> > the system, it's probably a kernel bug by definition. It doesn't matter
> > that's it a stupid thing to do, it might be malicious. And in this case
> > it might just be user error.
>
> But you either have to be root in order to talk to usbfs, or you were
> root when you gave a user access to the usbfs node. So either way, a
> "normal" user can't even do this.
Greg,
that's not an answer. It in effect means that usbfs is useless.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-26 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-23 20:56 E. Oltmanns
2004-04-24 0:30 ` Greg KH
2004-04-26 17:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-04-26 19:53 ` Greg KH
2004-04-26 22:17 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2004-04-26 22:31 ` Greg KH
2004-04-27 9:04 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-04-27 11:06 ` Duncan Sands
2004-04-26 22:53 ` E. Oltmanns
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