linux-kernel - Re: kobject_add failed with -EEXIST

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Message-Id: <200611201842.22551.oliver@neukum.org>
Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:42:22 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kobject_add failed with -EEXIST

Am Montag, 20. November 2006 18:31 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:14:56PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Does anybody have some clue, what's wrong with the attached module?
> > Kernel complains when the module is insmoded second time (DRIVER_DEBUG
> > enabled):
> 
> I just tried this with 2.6.19-rc6 and it worked just fine, no problems.
> Perhaps you have some userspace program keeping the
> /sys/class/cls_class/cls_device/ files open?

If this is the case, we'd have a denial of service security problem.

	Regards
		Oliver
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