Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932422AbVJLJ6X (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:58:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932425AbVJLJ6X (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:58:23 -0400 Received: from ganesha.gnumonks.org ([213.95.27.120]:35225 "EHLO ganesha.gnumonks.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932422AbVJLJ6W (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:58:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:24:02 +0200 From: Harald Welte To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg KH , Chris Wright , Sergey Vlasov , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, security@linux.kernel.org, vendor-sec@lst.de Subject: Re: [vendor-sec] Re: [BUG/PATCH/RFC] Oops while completing async USB via usbdevio Message-ID: <20051012072401.GI4237@rama.de.gnumonks.org> References: <20050930184433.GF16352@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20050930220808.GE4168@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20051010174429.GH5627@rama> <20051010180745.GT5856@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20051011094550.GI4290@rama> <20051011231054.GA16315@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x0KprKst+ZOYEj2z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng devel-20050619 (Debian) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2022 Lines: 55 --x0KprKst+ZOYEj2z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:44:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I _think_ I fixed the disconnect thing too, although I think Harald's=20 > naming for the disconnect structure was cleaner, so I wouldn't mind havin= g=20 > a (tested) patch on top of mine.. > [...] > But for 2.6.14, the most important thing would be to verify that the oops= =20 > cannot happen, and that you can't send signals to setuid programs by doin= g=20 > an "open(usb) + fork(keep it open in the child) + exec(suid in the=20 > parent)" I'm busy giving a netfilter tutorial all day, but I'll do the incremental patch + testing tonight. So I expect some kind of reply on this at about 11pm (GMT+1). Sorry once again for the delays, but as I said initially: I'm neither a core kernel / scheduler nor a USB developer. If somebody else had taken the bug, we'd have had way less round-trips... Cheers, --=20 - Harald Welte http://gnumonks.org/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6) --x0KprKst+ZOYEj2z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDTLoRXaXGVTD0i/8RAisAAKCgGyKNM1pMasUUHlckfeT7un2+2gCgpRPY DriH6MppsMEUjOmjVkScsrI= =65VZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x0KprKst+ZOYEj2z-- - 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/