Commit 7f59c150 authored by Stefan Koch's avatar Stefan Koch Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

usb: interface authorization: Documentation part

This part adds the documentation for the interface authorization.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Koch <stefan.koch10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 310d2b41
What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/INTERFACE/authorized
Date: August 2015
Description:
This allows to authorize (1) or deauthorize (0)
individual interfaces instead a whole device
in contrast to the device authorization.
If a deauthorized interface will be authorized
so the driver probing must be triggered manually
by writing INTERFACE to /sys/bus/usb/drivers_probe
This allows to avoid side-effects with drivers
that need multiple interfaces.
A deauthorized interface cannot be probed or claimed.
What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/usbX/interface_authorized_default
Date: August 2015
Description:
This is used as value that determines if interfaces
would be authorized by default.
The value can be 1 or 0. It's by default 1.
What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../authorized
Date: July 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.26
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can fake descriptors and device info. Don't trust that. You are
welcome.
Interface authorization
-----------------------
There is a similar approach to allow or deny specific USB interfaces.
That allows to block only a subset of an USB device.
Authorize an interface:
$ echo 1 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/INTERFACE/authorized
Deauthorize an interface:
$ echo 0 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/INTERFACE/authorized
The default value for new interfaces
on a particular USB bus can be changed, too.
Allow interfaces per default:
$ echo 1 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/usbX/interface_authorized_default
Deny interfaces per default:
$ echo 0 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/usbX/interface_authorized_default
Per default the interface_authorized_default bit is 1.
So all interfaces would authorized per default.
Note:
If a deauthorized interface will be authorized so the driver probing must
be triggered manually by writing INTERFACE to /sys/bus/usb/drivers_probe
For drivers that need multiple interfaces all needed interfaces should be
authroized first. After that the drivers should be probed.
This avoids side effects.
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