21 Jul, 2011

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25 May, 2011

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  • 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
    Reviewed-by: Andrei Warkentin
    Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Signed-off-by: Chris Ball

    John Calixto