linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace control of runtime disabling/enabling of driver probing

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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>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
        Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
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.