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Bug#878307: usbip: enable use of unix-domain sockets, not just network traffic

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On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 12:14 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Package: usbip
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Some tools (like Gnuk) offer USB device emulation, exported to the host
> for testing via usbip.
> 
> However, when using usbip in this way, any local user account with
> packet-sniffing privilege (e.g. members of group "wireshark" in a common
> debian convention) get access to the traffic over the USB port.
> 
> It would be great to enable usbip-style device exposure over a
> SOCK_STREAM unix-domain socket as well as a TCP-based socket, since this
> would make it possible to provide emulated USB devices without routing
> traffic through the networking stack.

Please discuss this with the upstream maintainers:

M:	Valentina Manea <valentina.manea.m@gmail.com>
M:	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
M:	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
L:	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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Bug#878307: usbip: enable use of unix-domain sockets, not just network traffic Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> - 2017-10-13 00:20 +0200
  Bug#878307: usbip: enable use of unix-domain sockets, not just network traffic Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-10-13 00:20 +0200

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