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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 14:59:12 -0600
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...eos.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, 
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>, 
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, 
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>, 
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>, 
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>, 
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>, Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of
 driver probing

On Jan 4, 2017 12:47, "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...


choose_config() isn't called until after authorisation, so even if scrape
that data you don't know what the kernel is going to choose.

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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