On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote: >> It is a very nice feature that FreeBSD 9 loads ugen along >> with uhid for generic USB HID device like my Microchip >> PICKit 2. With that, I can use libusb based program on >> generic HID device without the need to do anything. > > Yeah, and with that userland application which is given access to > "share" the device, it can now race changes in the device registers, > and thus mess up the kernel device driver, and trigger a bug in the > kernel. > > Very smart. > > Unless kernel device drivers are written very carefully. > > Which they never are, anywhere.
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