Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:53:59 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Oops during usb usage (2.6.5) |
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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.
thanks,
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