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    SubjectRe: Kernel Oops during usb usage (2.6.5)
    On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 01:06:15PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
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    > 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,

    greg k-h
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