Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750939AbVI0UIi (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:08:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750958AbVI0UIi (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:08:38 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:24971 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750956AbVI0UIh (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:08:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [Security] [vendor-sec] [BUG/PATCH/RFC] Oops while completing async USB via usbdevio From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Sergey Vlasov , Harald Welte , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, vendor-sec@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, security@linux.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20050925151330.GL731@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20050927160029.GA20466@master.mivlgu.local> <1127840281.10674.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:35:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1127853317.10674.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 581 Lines: 18 On Maw, 2005-09-27 at 09:59 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Which doesn't take very long to arrange. Relying on pids is definitely a > > security problem we don't want to make worse than it already is. > > The thing is, the current code is _worse_. > > MUCH worse. Violent agreement - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/