On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > So yes, it's possible that an old device node allowing global access > > might not be replaced sufficiently quickly by a new node having more > > restrictive permissions. Then a user could open the old node and > > thereby gain access to the new device. But that's unrelated to this > > patch. > > Does it make it likely that the minor number will be reused next time? If the device file is not in use then the likelihood is unchanged by this patch. If the device file is held open then the patch makes it more likely that the minor number will be reused. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
