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author | Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> | 2022-12-06 09:29:13 +0000 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2022-12-08 09:17:45 -0700 |
commit | c1f480b2d092960ecf8bb0bd1f27982c33ada42a (patch) | |
tree | 6f3397b8ed9b4fa595dd44fbe6581160a0a4f3ef /Documentation/sound/cards | |
parent | 37754595e94779db869e6ef803f038fa956d08ff (diff) | |
download | linux-c1f480b2d092960ecf8bb0bd1f27982c33ada42a.tar.bz2 |
sed-opal: allow using IOC_OPAL_SAVE for locking too
Usually when closing a crypto device (eg: dm-crypt with LUKS) the
volume key is not required, as it requires root privileges anyway, and
root can deny access to a disk in many ways regardless. Requiring the
volume key to lock the device is a peculiarity of the OPAL
specification.
Given we might already have saved the key if the user requested it via
the 'IOC_OPAL_SAVE' ioctl, we can use that key to lock the device if no
key was provided here and the locking range matches, and the user sets
the appropriate flag with 'IOC_OPAL_SAVE'. This allows integrating OPAL
with tools and libraries that are used to the common behaviour and do
not ask for the volume key when closing a device.
Callers can always pass a non-zero key and it will be used regardless,
as before.
Suggested-by: Štěpán Horáček <stepan.horacek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221206092913.4625-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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