From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> stable inclusion from stable-v5.10.121 commit 8a8b40d00753c95869e8d0ab275d752756dec16f category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I5L6CQ Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- [ Upstream commit bb7bf697fed58eae9d3445944e457ab0de4da54f ] It is not clear why the original implementation of overwrite support required the dimm driver to be active before overwrite could proceed. In fact that can lead to cases where the kernel retains an invalid cached copy of the labels from before the overwrite. Unfortunately the kernel has not only allowed that case, but enforced it. Going forward, allow for overwrite to happen while the label area is offline, and follow-on with updates to 'ndctl sanitize-dimm --overwrite' to trigger the label area invalidation by default. Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Reported-by: Krzysztof Kensicki <krzysztof.kensicki@intel.com> Fixes: 7d988097c546 ("acpi/nfit, libnvdimm/security: Add security DSM overwrite support") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> Acked-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> --- drivers/nvdimm/security.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/security.c b/drivers/nvdimm/security.c index 4b80150e4afa..b5aa55c61461 100644 --- a/drivers/nvdimm/security.c +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/security.c @@ -379,11 +379,6 @@ static int security_overwrite(struct nvdimm *nvdimm, unsigned int keyid) || !nvdimm->sec.flags) return -EOPNOTSUPP; - if (dev->driver == NULL) { - dev_dbg(dev, "Unable to overwrite while DIMM active.\n"); - return -EINVAL; - } - rc = check_security_state(nvdimm); if (rc) return rc; -- 2.20.1