From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265226AbTIIXWb (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:22:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265237AbTIIXWb (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:22:31 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:39398 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265226AbTIIXW3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:22:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:19:49 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Remo Inverardi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OHCI Host Controler Died Message-ID: <20030909231949.GA8175@kroah.com> References: <3F5E4D93.9030804@your.toilet.ch> <20030909225125.GA7995@kroah.com> <3F5E5F61.6030406@your.toilet.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F5E5F61.6030406@your.toilet.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:16:49AM +0200, Remo Inverardi wrote: > Greg, > > >Great, go bug vmware then :) > > I will -- but ... > > I was under the impression that all of VMware's USB code is running in > user space. Running "grep -ir usb ." in VMware's modules/source > directory did not return any hits, so this assumption is probably correct. I'm under that impression too, but due to them requiring kernel drivers to support their program, I can not be sure. > This does look like a kernel bug to me, since it should not be possible > to crash the OHCI driver from user space. I agree. And if you can figure out how it does that, we would really appreciate it :) thanks, greg k-h