linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mmc: card: Don't show eMMC RPMB and BOOT areas in /proc/partitions

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Message-ID: <034dc340-149f-dfdf-a2eb-5f15ce9fb412@mentor.com>
Date:   Tue, 6 Mar 2018 18:17:36 +0530
From:   Harish Jenny K N <harish_kandiga@...tor.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
CC:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>,
        linux-mmc <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: card: Don't show eMMC RPMB and BOOT areas in
 /proc/partitions



On Friday 02 March 2018 06:23 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Harish Jenny K N
> <harish_kandiga@...tor.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Andrew Gabbasov <andrew_gabbasov@...tor.com>
>>
>> Since RPMB area is accessible via special ioctl only and boot areas
>> are unlikely to contain any partitions, exclude them all from listing
>> in /proc/partitions. This will hide them from various user-level
>> software (e.g. fdisk), thus avoiding unnecessary access attempts.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Gabbasov <andrew_gabbasov@...tor.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Harish Jenny K N <harish_kandiga@...tor.com>
> Makes sense to me, at least it makes the problem smaller not bigger.
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>


Any other comments/inputs on this ?


Thanks,
Harish Jenny K N