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 > naming for the disconnect structure was cleaner, so I wouldn't mind having > a (tested) patch on top of mine.. > [...] > But for 2.6.14, the most important thing would be to verify that the oops > cannot happen, and that you can't send signals to setuid programs by doing > an "open(usb) + fork(keep it open in the child) + exec(suid in the > 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, -- - Harald Welte <[email protected]> http://gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
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