Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:40:36 -0400 | From | Anderson Briglia <> | Subject | [PATCH 0/4] Add MMC Password Protection (lock/unlock) support V8 |
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Hi all,
New in this version:
- mmc_sysfs.c: "change" and "assign" code merged to avoid code duplication. - OMAP specific patch not include on this series. - mmc_lock_unlock function: now, the host is claimed before mmc_lock_unlock is called. - Version according the latest mainline git repository.
This series of patches add support for MultiMediaCard (MMC) password protection, as described in the MMC Specification v4.1. This feature is supported by all compliant MMC cards, and used by some devices such as Symbian OS cell phones to optionally protect MMC cards with a password.
By default, a MMC 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 the card can be normally used for operations like block I/O.
Password management and caching is done through the "Kernel Key Retention Service" mechanism and the sysfs filesystem. A new sysfs attribute was added to the MMC driver for unlocking the card, assigning a password to an unlocked card, change a card's password, remove the password and check locked/unlocked status.
A sample text-mode reference UI written in shell script (using the keyctl command from the keyutils package), can be found at:
http://www.indt.org.br/10le/mmc_pwd/mmc_reference_ui-20060130.tar.bz2
TODO:
- Ongoing: Extend the MMC PWD Scheme to SD Cards.
- Password caching: when inserting a locked card, the driver should try to unlock it with the currently stored password (if any), and if it fails, revoke the key containing it and fallback to the normal "no password present" situation.
Known Issue:
- Some cards have an incorrect behaviour (hardware bug?) regarding password acceptance: if an affected card has password <pwd>, it accepts <pwd><xxx> as the correct password too, where <xxx> is any sequence of characters, of any length. In other words, on these cards only the first <password length> bytes need to match the correct password.
Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
-- Anderson Briglia
Embedded Linux Lab - 10LE Nokia Institute of Technology - INdT Manaus - Brazil -- _______________________________________________ Linux-omap-open-source mailing list Linux-omap-open-source@linux.omap.com http://linux.omap.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-omap-open-source
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