linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] libnvdimm/security: Enumerate the frozen state and other cleanups

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Message-ID: <x4936hl8960.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:57:43 -0400
From:   Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] libnvdimm/security: Enumerate the frozen state and other cleanups

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> writes:

> Changes since v1 [1]:
> - Cleanup patch1, simplify flags return in the overwrite case and
>   consolidate frozen-state cases (Jeff)
> - Clarify the motivation for patch2 (Jeff)
> - Collect Dave's Reviewed-by

The series tests out fine for me.

Thanks, Dan!

-Jeff


>
> [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2019-August/023133.html
>
> ---
>
> Jeff reported a scenario where ndctl was failing to unlock DIMMs [2].
> Through the course of debug it was discovered that the security
> interface on the DIMMs was in the 'frozen' state disallowing unlock, or
> any security operation.  Unfortunately the kernel only showed that the
> DIMMs were 'locked', not 'locked' and 'frozen'.
>
> Introduce a new sysfs 'frozen' attribute so that ndctl can reflect the
> "security-operations-allowed" state independently of the lock status.
> Then, followup with cleanups related to replacing a security-state-enum
> with a set of flags.
>  
> [2]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2019-August/022856.html
>
> ---
>
> Dan Williams (3):
>       libnvdimm/security: Introduce a 'frozen' attribute
>       libnvdimm/security: Tighten scope of nvdimm->busy vs security operations
>       libnvdimm/security: Consolidate 'security' operations
>
>
>  drivers/acpi/nfit/intel.c        |   59 ++++++-----
>  drivers/nvdimm/bus.c             |    2 
>  drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c       |  134 ++++++--------------------
>  drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h         |   51 ++++------
>  drivers/nvdimm/security.c        |  199 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  include/linux/libnvdimm.h        |    9 +-
>  tools/testing/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c |   19 +---
>  7 files changed, 226 insertions(+), 247 deletions(-)