This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nvdimm: Allow overwrite in the presence of disabled dimms
to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nvdimm-allow-overwrite-in-the-presence-of-disabled-d.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b52e5820b086773095f3e43281ba1de420324ef7
Author: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 28 15:47:46 2022 -0700
nvdimm: Allow overwrite in the presence of disabled dimms
[ Upstream commit bb7bf697fed58eae9d3445944e457ab0de4da54f ]
It is not clear why the original implementation of overwrite support
required the dimm driver to be active before overwrite could proceed. In
fact that can lead to cases where the kernel retains an invalid cached
copy of the labels from before the overwrite. Unfortunately the kernel
has not only allowed that case, but enforced it.
Going forward, allow for overwrite to happen while the label area is
offline, and follow-on with updates to 'ndctl sanitize-dimm --overwrite'
to trigger the label area invalidation by default.
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Krzysztof Kensicki <krzysztof.kensicki@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 7d988097c546 ("acpi/nfit, libnvdimm/security: Add security DSM overwrite support")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/security.c b/drivers/nvdimm/security.c
index 4b80150e4afa..b5aa55c61461 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/security.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/security.c
@@ -379,11 +379,6 @@ static int security_overwrite(struct nvdimm *nvdimm, unsigned int keyid)
|| !nvdimm->sec.flags)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- if (dev->driver == NULL) {
- dev_dbg(dev, "Unable to overwrite while DIMM active.\n");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
rc = check_security_state(nvdimm);
if (rc)
return rc;
