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authorJohn Calixto <john.calixto@modsystems.com>2011-04-26 18:56:29 -0400
committerChris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>2011-05-24 21:02:54 -0400
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mmc: core: Add mmc CMD+ACMD passthrough ioctl
Allows appropriately-privileged applications to send CMD (normal) and ACMD
(application-specific; preceded with CMD55) commands to cards/devices on
the mmc bus.  This is primarily useful for enabling the security
functionality built in to every SD card.

It can also be used as a generic passthrough (e.g. to enable virtual
machines to control mmc bus devices directly).  However, this use case has
not been tested rigorously.  Generic passthrough testing was only conducted
for a few non-security opcodes to prove the feasibility of the passthrough.

Since any opcode can be sent using this passthrough, it is very possible to
render the card/device unusable.  Applications that use this ioctl must
have CAP_SYS_RAWIO.

Security commands tested on TI PCIxx12 (SDHCI), Sigma Designs SMP8652 SoC,
TI OMAP3621/OMAP3630 SoC, Samsung S5PC110 SoC, Qualcomm MSM7200A SoC.

Signed-off-by: John Calixto <john.calixto@modsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@motorola.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt1
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diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
index a0a5d82b6b0b..2a34d822e6d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ Code  Seq#(hex)	Include File		Comments
 0xB0	all	RATIO devices		in development:
 					<mailto:vgo@ratio.de>
 0xB1	00-1F	PPPoX			<mailto:mostrows@styx.uwaterloo.ca>
+0xB3	00	linux/mmc/ioctl.h
 0xC0	00-0F	linux/usb/iowarrior.h
 0xCB	00-1F	CBM serial IEC bus	in development:
 					<mailto:michael.klein@puffin.lb.shuttle.de>