With recent devfs(s) problems I begin to ask myself, if secure kernel
may be allowed to have devfs.

Note that devfs(d) opens up DoS possibility that is near to impossible
to close. Because devfsd calls modprobe on any LOOKUP any
*non-priviledged* user can possibly hit system with as simple as

wile true; do
ls /dev/foo
done

Of course we could have devfs with devfsd but it looks rather silly (and
is not supported by current initscripts anyway).

So I vote for removing devfs support from kernel-secure.

Comments?

-andrej

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