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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "Oliver Pinter (Pint?r Oliv?r)" <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] skge 0000:02:05: read data parity error
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:48:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080114214828.GA8128@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6101e8c40801141341hcb17b08h2fd5244bccb21928@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:41:52PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pint?r Oliv?r) wrote:
> On 1/14/08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:31:03PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pint?r Oliv?r)
> > wrote:
> > > I think, it is a potential security breakpoint, when applications with
> > > root permission its read, then a machine is freezed, or only i thin
> > > it's?
> >
> > When you are root there are infinite ways to kill your machine, so
> > there's nothing security related about this issue.
> 
> Yes, i know, but when some application or daemons read some file with
> running root privileges, then ...

It's always been that way, this is nothing new.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-14 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-14 19:57 [BUG] skge 0000:02:05: read data parity error Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
2008-01-14 20:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-14 20:52   ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-14 21:01   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-14 21:01     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-14 21:30     ` Greg KH
2008-01-14 21:31     ` Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
2008-01-14 21:34       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-14 21:41         ` Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
2008-01-14 21:48           ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-01-14 21:52           ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-14 21:58             ` Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
2008-01-14 22:37               ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-14 21:38       ` Greg KH
2008-01-14 21:44         ` Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)

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