Re: Kernel Oops during usb usage (2.6.5)

[Oliver Neukum]

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

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