Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [Security] [vendor-sec] [BUG/PATCH/RFC]Oops while completing async USB via usbdevio

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Sep 27 2005 - 15:09:13 EST


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

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