Re: [PATCH] mmc: card: Don't show eMMC RPMB and BOOT areas in /proc/partitions

From: Alex Lemberg
Date: Tue Feb 27 2018 - 09:56:36 EST


While RPMB partition requires special IOCTL

Thanks,
Alex
ïOn 2/27/18, 1:34 PM, "linux-mmc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Harish Jenny K N" <linux-mmc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of harish_kandiga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Andrew Gabbasov <andrew_gabbasov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Since RPMB area is accessible via special ioctl only and boot areas
are unlikely to contain any partitions, exclude them all from listing
in /proc/partitions. This will hide them from various user-level
software (e.g. fdisk), thus avoiding unnecessary access attempts.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gabbasov <andrew_gabbasov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Harish Jenny K N <harish_kandiga@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mmc/core/block.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/block.c b/drivers/mmc/core/block.c
index 20135a5..376e47e 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/block.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/block.c
@@ -2341,7 +2341,8 @@ static struct mmc_blk_data *mmc_blk_alloc_req(struct mmc_card *card,
set_disk_ro(md->disk, md->read_only || default_ro);
md->disk->flags = GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT;
if (area_type & (MMC_BLK_DATA_AREA_RPMB | MMC_BLK_DATA_AREA_BOOT))
- md->disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN;
+ md->disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN
+ | GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO;

/*
* As discussed on lkml, GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE should:
--
1.9.1

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