[PATCH V3 0/7] Add password protected lock/unlock support for SD/MMC

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Changed for V3:
The previously submitted patches are apparently being used and
uncovered an issue where hotplug scripts are trying to read
the block device of a locked card and getting read/write
errors. This has been solved by preventing the block layer from
coming up until the card is unlocked. Also added more detail
to this cover letter on the use of the KEYS subsystem.

Changed for V2:
The V2 changes were not functional and were just general cleanup.
  - Use stub functions to reduce the number of CONFIG ifdefs.
  - Add static to a few functions that were local.
  - Use pr_warn instead of pr_warning.
  - Improve a few variable names and messages.

This set of patches adds support for password protected locking
and unlocking of MMC and SD devices. It uses the LOCK/UNLOCK command
(CMD42) available in both the MMC and SD command sets.

Some of this code was based on a patch set submitted in 2006 by
Anderson Briglia "Add MMC Password Protection (lock/unlock)". This
patch set never made it into mainline. 

By default, a card with no password assigned is always in "unlocked"
state. After password assignment, in the next power cycle the card
switches to a "locked" state where only the "basic" and "lock card"
command classes are accepted by the card. Only after unlocking it with
the correct password can the card be used for normal operations like
block I/O.

Password management and caching is done through the "Kernel Key
Retention Service" mechanism and the sysfs filesystem. The KEY
name for a specific SD/MMC device is the devices "cid" because it
will be unique for every card. The use of the kernel KEYS subsystem
requires support from user space and needs to have the keyutils
package included in the rootfs. A user space script or helper app
will need to be added that will lookup the password based on cid
and use the "keyctl" utility to instantiate the key. Two new sysfs
attributes were added. The "lock" attribute is used to lock, unlock,
assign a password, clear a password and force erase a card. The
"unlock_retry" attribute is used to retry an unlock that failed
during boot because the rootfs was not yet available to setup the
keys password. The "unlock_retry" attribute is a NOP for unlocked
cards, so user space init processing can write a 1 to all instances
found in the sysfs once the rootfs with keyutils functionality is
available.

Al Cooper (7):
  mmc: lock: Use the kernel "KEYS" subsystem to get a card's password
  mmc: lock: Add low level LOCK_UNLOCK command
  mmc: lock: Add function to unlock a password locked card
  mmc: lock: Add card lock/unlock maintenance commands
  mmc: lock: Change SD init functionality to handle locked SD cards
  mmc: lock: Prevent block device from coming up for locked cards.
  mmc: lock: Change MMC init to handle locked cards.

 drivers/mmc/card/block.c   |  10 ++++
 drivers/mmc/core/Kconfig   |   8 +++
 drivers/mmc/core/core.c    | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mmc/core/core.h    |  15 ++++-
 drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c     | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mmc/core/mmc_ops.c | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/mmc/core/mmc_ops.h |  13 +++++
 drivers/mmc/core/sd.c      | 138 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 include/linux/mmc/card.h   |   6 ++
 9 files changed, 515 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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1.8.1.3

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