linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] virtio: Initialize authorized attribute for confidential guest

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Date:   Fri, 1 Oct 2021 11:09:52 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] virtio: Initialize authorized attribute for
 confidential guest

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 9:47 AM Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 09:13:54AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Bear with me, and perhaps it's a lack of imagination on my part, but I
> > don't see how to get to a globally generic "authorized" sysfs ABI
> > given that USB and Thunderbolt want to do bus specific actions on
> > authorization toggle events. Certainly a default generic authorized
> > attribute can be defined for all the other buses that don't have
> > legacy here, but Thunderbolt will still require support for '2' as an
> > authorized value, and USB will still want to base probe decisions on
> > the authorization state of both the usb_device and the usb_interface.
>
> The USB part isn't really accurate (I can't speak for Thunderbolt).
> When a usb_device is deauthorized, the device will be unconfigured,
> deleting all its interfaces and removing the need for any probe
> decisions about them.  In other words, the probe decision for a
> usb_device or usb_interface depends only on the device's/interface's
> own authorization state.
>
> True, the interface binding code does contain a test of the device's
> authorization setting.  That test is redundant and can be removed.
>
> The actions that USB wants to take on authorization toggle events for
> usb_devices are: for authorize, select and install a configuration;
> for deauthorize, unconfigure the device.  Each of these could be
> handled simply enough just by binding/unbinding the device.  (There
> is some special code for handling wireless USB devices, but wireless
> USB is now defunct.)

Ah, so are you saying that it would be sufficient for USB if the
generic authorized implementation did something like:

dev->authorized = 1;
device_attach(dev);

...for the authorize case, and:

dev->authorize = 0;
device_release_driver(dev);

...for the deauthorize case?