linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] skge 0000:02:05: read data parity error

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

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:41:52PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pint?r Oliv?r) wrote:
> On 1/14/08, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.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
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