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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:15:50 -0400
From: Anderson Briglia <anderson.briglia@indt.org.br>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add MMC Password Protection (lock/unlock) support
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Hi all,

Someone has comments for these patches?

Best regards,

Anderson Briglia

Anderson Briglia wrote:
> 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.
> 

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