On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 06:52:25AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > Both thunderbolt and USB have the idea of "authorized" devices, that is
> > the logic that should be made generic and available for all busses to
> > use, by moving it to the driver core, just like the "removable" logic
> > got moved to the driver core recently (see 70f400d4d957 ("driver core:
> > Move the "removable" attribute from USB to core")
>
> This looks like it's controlled by udev? Have a default per bus, and let
> user space override it before setting up the device.
It's controlled by whatever you want to use in userspace. usbguard has
been handling this logic in userspace for over a decade now just fine.
> This doesn't help us handle builtin drivers that initialize before user
> space is up.
Then have the default setting for your bus be "unauthorized" like we
allow for some busses today.
> We need something that works for all drivers. Also cannot just use a default
> at bootup because some drivers (like virtio or rtc) need to be initialized
> in early boot to make the system functional at all. So you need a way to
> distinguish these two cases in the pre user space boot.
>
> That's basically what this patch implements the infrastructure for.
It also ignores the existing implementation we already have for this for
some busses, please do not do that.
> > Please use that type of interface, as we already have userspace tools
> > using it, and expand it for all busses in the system to use if they
> > want. Otherwise with this proposal you will end up with multiple ways
> > to control the same bus type with different types of "filtering",
> > ensuring a mess.
>
> How would such a proposal work for a platform driver that doesn't have a
> bus?
There is a platform bus, it's just a fake one. The platform bus code
does the binding just like any other bus does, why is platform somehow
"special"? Except for how it is abused...
thanks,
greg k-h
