Bug 229115

Summary:	Current usage of /etc/udev/devices may crash the system when greping /etc
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Till Maas <opensource>
Component:	udev	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
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Description Till Maas 2007-02-17 11:03:16 UTC

Description of problem:
/etc/udev/devices/ may contain device files, when / is not mounted with nodev
option, which is the default, and someone uses grep -R on /etc the system may
hang - or other unexpected behaviour may occur.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.1.1-1

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2007-05-24 13:21:02 UTC

/etc/fstab isn't created by setup but rather during installation, so reassigning
this bug to anaconda.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-05-24 15:59:57 UTC

This could break cases where people expect to be able to use devices elsewhere,
though.  /etc/udev/devices should really use a textual description of the
devices much like MAKEDEV does

Comment 3 Till Maas 2007-05-24 16:19:45 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> This could break cases where people expect to be able to use devices elsewhere,
> though.  /etc/udev/devices should really use a textual description of the
> devices much like MAKEDEV does

How often does one use device-files outside of /dev and why does anyone need this?

Comment 4 Harald Hoyer 2007-05-31 17:13:23 UTC

/etc/udev/devices/ is deprecated.. the use of /etc/udev/makedev.d is encouraged
for exactly this reason.