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

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2017-06-12 21:38 GMT+02:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>:
> No, like Krzysztof said, you can already do this today, just fine, from
> userspace.  I think that support has been there for over a decade now,
> why are you not taking advantage of this already?
> No need to add extra stuff to the kernel at all to do this

Honesty, now that you mention it, I agree with you.
This feature can be implemented in userspace and I'm the first one to
think that what can be implemented in userspace should stay in
userspace.

> sorry you
> implemented all of this for no reason :(

Don't worry, usb filtering is just a small part of this patchset.
Let's hope the rest will end up being more useful. :)

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer me.

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[PATCH 00/11] S.A.R.A. a new stacked LSM Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 08/11] Creation of "pagefault_handler_x86" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 08/11] Creation of "pagefault_handler_x86" LSM hook Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-06-12 19:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 08/11] Creation of "pagefault_handler_x86" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 09:50 +0200
  [PATCH 10/11] Allowing for stacking procattr support in S.A.R.A. Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 01/11] S.A.R.A. Documentation Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:00 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 01/11] S.A.R.A. Documentation Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> - 2017-06-12 19:50 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 01/11] S.A.R.A. Documentation Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 09:50 +0200
  [PATCH 09/11] Trampoline emulation Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 04/11] S.A.R.A. USB Filtering Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 05/11] Creation of "check_vmflags" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 05/11] Creation of "check_vmflags" LSM hook Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> - 2017-06-12 23:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 05/11] Creation of "check_vmflags" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 10:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 05/11] Creation of "check_vmflags" LSM hook Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-06-13 08:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 05/11] Creation of "check_vmflags" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 10:00 +0200
  [PATCH 02/11] S.A.R.A. framework creation Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 03/11] Creation of "usb_device_auth" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 03/11] Creation of "usb_device_auth" LSM hook Krzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@samsung.com> - 2017-06-12 19:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/11] Creation of "usb_device_auth" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 09:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 03/11] Creation of "usb_device_auth" LSM hook Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-12 21:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/11] Creation of "usb_device_auth" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 10:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 03/11] Creation of "usb_device_auth" LSM hook Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> - 2017-06-12 23:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/11] Creation of "usb_device_auth" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 10:00 +0200
  [PATCH 07/11] S.A.R.A. WX Protection Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 06/11] S.A.R.A. cred blob management Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 19:10 +0200

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