Re: Kernel Oops during usb usage (2.6.5)

[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.

thanks,

greg k-h
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