| To: | Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: skge: reboot on sysfs resource0 access |
| From: | Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:01:39 +0200 |
| Cc: | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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> > Sorry, this is not a driver bug.
>
> Does that mean if you do this:
>
> find /sys -name "*" -print|xargs grep foo
>
> that the system will crash?
I would also guess it would happen, though I won't try that now.
>
> I certainly would consider that a bug, and even if that somehow works, I'd
> think that at the least you should be able to read every file in the file
> system without crashing the system!
>
> Do you at least have to be root to cause this crash?
Yes, the resource0 file has rw access to root only.
Cheers,
Bernd
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