Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:29:05 -0800 | From | Luis Chamberlain <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modules: add modalias file to sysfs for modules. |
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On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 09:28:52AM -0600, Allen Webb wrote: > USB devices support the authorized attribute which can be used by > user-space to implement trust-based systems for enabling USB devices. It > would be helpful when building these systems to be able to know in > advance which kernel drivers (or modules) are reachable from a > particular USB device. > > This information is readily available for external modules in > modules.alias. However, builtin kernel modules are not covered. This > patch adds a sys-fs attribute to both builtin and loaded modules > exposing the matching rules in the modalias format for integration > with tools like USBGuard. > > Signed-off-by: Allen Webb <allenwebb@google.com>
Thanks for the patch Allen!
I'd rather have something generic though, and it would seem kmod [0] already does this, have you seen the kmod support for builtin.alias.bin
Can't that be used?
[0] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git
Luis
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