Re: Modprobe local root exploit

[Peter Samuelson]

[Torsten Duwe]
> +     for (p = module_name; *p; p++)
> +     {
> +       if (isalnum(*p) || *p == '_' || *p == '-')
> +         continue;
> +
> +       return -EINVAL;
> +     }

I think you just broke at least some versions of devfs.  I don't
remember if the feature is still around, but I know it *used* to be
possible to request_module("/dev/foobar"), which requires '/' in the
name.

Peter
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