Re: [PATCH V3 0/8] Add password protected lock/unlock support for SD/MMC

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This is always on my todo list but it never bubbles to the top.
In a few weeks I will probably be in a position to take another pass
at getting this in.

Al

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 9:15 PM, Yoshihiro Shimoda
<yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> From: Al Cooper
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 8:11 AM
>> To: ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; pgynther@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: Al Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [PATCH V3 0/8] Add password protected lock/unlock support for SD/MMC
>
> This patch set is quite old, but do you have any update for upstreaming of this patch set?
> Our team would like to use this function on our platform.
> So, if possible, we would like to apply this function on upstream.
>
> Best regards,
> Yoshihiro Shimoda
>
>> 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. 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 with the password.
>>
>> The user space software needed to test this new feature
>> is available on GitHub at:
>> https://github.com/alcooper/mmc-password-utils
>> See the README for a detailed description of the user space layer
>> and how to use this feature.
>>
>> Changed for V3:
>>   - Ported the V2 patch set submitted Aug. 2013 to the latest mainline
>>     (v4.1-rc4).
>>   - Created a GitHub project for the user space layer.
>>   - Change the lock command (CMD42) to round up the data buffer
>>     size to 512 for SD but leave exact size for eMMC based on the
>>     SD and eMMC specs.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Abbas Raza (1):
>>   According to SD Physical Layer Specifications: Locked cards respond to
>>     (and execute) all commands in the "basic" command class (class 0),
>>     ACMD41, CMD16 and "lock card" command class. Thus, the host is
>>     allowed to reset, initialize, select, query for status, etc., but
>>     not to access data on the card.
>>
>> 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 partition table read for locked cards.
>>   mmc: lock: Change MMC init to handle locked cards.
>>
>>  drivers/mmc/card/block.c   |  14 ++++
>>  drivers/mmc/core/Kconfig   |   8 +++
>>  drivers/mmc/core/core.c    | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/mmc/core/core.h    |  14 +++-
>>  drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c     | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/mmc/core/mmc_ops.c | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/mmc/core/mmc_ops.h |  13 ++++
>>  drivers/mmc/core/sd.c      | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>>  include/linux/mmc/card.h   |   6 ++
>>  9 files changed, 560 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>>
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