Re: [PATCH v2] thunderbolt: For dev authorization changes, include the actual event in udev change notification

From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>
Cc: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>,
	Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@intel.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
	Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@gmail.com>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.or, rajatxjain@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] thunderbolt: For dev authorization changes, include the actual event in udev change notification
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 08:48:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPu30AL27UwnfOrI@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210724004043.2075819-1-rajatja@google.com>

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 05:40:43PM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> For security, we would like to monitor and track when the thunderbolt
> devices are authorized and deauthorized (i.e. when the thunderbolt sysfs
> "authorized" attribute changes). Currently the userspace gets a udev
> change notification when there is a change, but the state may have
> changed (again) by the time we look at the authorized attribute in
> sysfs. So an authorization event may go unnoticed. Thus make it easier
> by informing the actual change (new value of authorized attribute) in
> the udev change notification.
> 
> The change is included as a key value "authorized=<val>" where <val>
> is the new value of sysfs attribute "authorized", and is described at
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-thunderbolt under
> /sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/.../authorized
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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