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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:53:19 -0600
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...eos.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of
driver probing
Ugh let's try that again in plain text (How does the Android gmail
client still not get this right‽)
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 02:01:00PM -0600, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > You know the device type and vendor/product id before you authorize it,
>> > you should be able to do this type of detection otherwise it seems
>> > pretty pointless :)
>>
>> You know the vendor and product ID, which doesn't tell you whether one
>> of the endpoints is a network device or a keyboard. You need to know
>> that.
>
> Are you sure you don't have the configuration information as well? That
> should tell you...
usb_choose_configuration() hasn't been called at this point, so no -
we don't create any device entries, so there's no way for userspace to
know anything (there isn't even a uevent on device plug). And even if
you could scrape the info, you still have no way of knowing what
configuration the kernel will choose if the device has multiple.
> And for network devices, they are almost all just vendor/product ids,
> not many use the class protocol.
Plenty of stuff uses CDC.
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