Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030380AbVI3UjF (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:39:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030382AbVI3UjE (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:39:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:43924 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030380AbVI3UjD (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:39:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:38:43 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Chris Wright , Harald Welte , Sergey Vlasov , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, security@linux.kernel.org, vendor-sec@lst.de Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [Security] [vendor-sec] [BUG/PATCH/RFC] Oops while completing async USB via usbdevio Message-ID: <20050930203843.GG16352@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20050925151330.GL731@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20050927160029.GA20466@master.mivlgu.local> <20050927165206.GB20466@master.mivlgu.local> <20050930104749.GN4168@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20050930184433.GF16352@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 490 Lines: 14 * Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org) wrote: > Not for this particular USB use, there isn't. Since you can only send a > signal to yourself anyway, the uid/euid check is just testing that you're > still who you were. Ah, I see. thanks, -chris - 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/