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Commit cb87ea28 authored by John Calixto's avatar John Calixto Committed by Chris Ball
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mmc: core: Add mmc CMD+ACMD passthrough ioctl



Allows appropriately-privileged applications to send CMD (normal) and ACMD
(application-specific; preceded with CMD55) commands to cards/devices on
the mmc bus.  This is primarily useful for enabling the security
functionality built in to every SD card.

It can also be used as a generic passthrough (e.g. to enable virtual
machines to control mmc bus devices directly).  However, this use case has
not been tested rigorously.  Generic passthrough testing was only conducted
for a few non-security opcodes to prove the feasibility of the passthrough.

Since any opcode can be sent using this passthrough, it is very possible to
render the card/device unusable.  Applications that use this ioctl must
have CAP_SYS_RAWIO.

Security commands tested on TI PCIxx12 (SDHCI), Sigma Designs SMP8652 SoC,
TI OMAP3621/OMAP3630 SoC, Samsung S5PC110 SoC, Qualcomm MSM7200A SoC.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Calixto <john.calixto@modsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrei Warkentin <andreiw@motorola.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
parent 641c3187
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