From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kobject_add failed with -EEXIST
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:42:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611201842.22551.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061120173116.GA27160@suse.de>
Am Montag, 20. November 2006 18:31 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:14:56PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Does anybody have some clue, what's wrong with the attached module?
> > Kernel complains when the module is insmoded second time (DRIVER_DEBUG
> > enabled):
>
> I just tried this with 2.6.19-rc6 and it worked just fine, no problems.
> Perhaps you have some userspace program keeping the
> /sys/class/cls_class/cls_device/ files open?
If this is the case, we'd have a denial of service security problem.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-20 17:14 Jiri Slaby
2006-11-20 17:27 ` Greg KH
2006-11-20 17:31 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-11-20 17:52 ` Greg KH
2006-11-21 10:49 ` Jiri Slaby
[not found] ` <4af2d03a0611241620h657de9b8jfb9310e19f68f426@mail.gmail.com>
2006-11-25 0:30 ` Fwd: " Jiri Slaby
2006-11-20 17:31 ` Greg KH
2006-11-20 17:42 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2006-11-20 17:47 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-11-20 18:15 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-11-20 18:23 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-11-20 18:56 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-11-20 19:53 ` [PATCH] driver core: delete virtual directory on class_unregister() Akinobu Mita
2006-11-20 20:34 ` Greg KH
2006-11-21 9:58 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-11-21 15:09 ` Cornelia Huck
2006-11-25 8:58 ` kobject_add failed with -EEXIST markus reichelt
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2006-11-17 15:40 Jiri Slaby
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