From: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> The RPMB partition should only be accessed through the RPMB ioctls and not through read()/write(). This patch makes mmc_blk_open() reject open attempts to the RPMB partition in read or write mode. Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yuvaraj Kumar C D <yuvaraj.cd@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mmc/card/block.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c index 452782b..fd59090 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c @@ -297,7 +297,15 @@ static int mmc_blk_open(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode) check_disk_change(bdev); ret = 0; - if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) && md->read_only) { + /* + * Reject read/write access to the RPMB partition. It should + * only be accessed through ioctls. + */ + if ((mode & (FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE)) && + md->area_type & MMC_BLK_DATA_AREA_RPMB) { + mmc_blk_put(md); + ret = -EACCES; + } else if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) && md->read_only) { mmc_blk_put(md); ret = -EROFS; } -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html