Re: [PATCH 03/11] Creation of "usb_device_auth" LSM hook

[Krzysztof Opasiak]

Hi,

On 06/12/2017 06:56 PM, Salvatore Mesoraca wrote:
> Creation of a new LSM hook that can be used to authorize or deauthorize
> new USB devices via the usb authorization interface.
> The same hook can also prevent the authorization of a USB device via
> "/sys/bus/usb/devices/DEVICE/authorized".
> Using this hook an LSM could provide an higher level of granularity
> than the current authorization interface.

Could you please explain me why we need LSM for this?

There are tools like usbguard[1] and as far as I can tell it looks like 
they can do everything for you...
Without kernel modification...
without matching and storing rules inside kernel..
just pure userspace which uses device/interface authorization

Footnote:
1 - https://dkopecek.github.io/usbguard/

Best regards,
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Krzysztof Opasiak
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics