linux_dsm_epyc7002/drivers/mtd/spi-nor
Brian Norris 47b8edbf0d mtd: spi-nor: disallow further writes to SR if WP# is low
Locking the flash is most useful if it provides real hardware security.
Otherwise, it's little more than a software permission bit.

A reasonable use case that provides real HW security might be like
follows:

(1) hardware WP# is deasserted
(2) program flash
(3) flash range is protected via status register
(4) hardware WP# is asserted
(5) flash protection range can no longer be changed, until WP# is
    deasserted

In this way, flash protection is co-owned by hardware and software.

Now, one would expect to be able to perform step (3) with
ioctl(MEMLOCK), except that the spi-nor driver does not set the Status
Register Protect bit (a.k.a. Status Register Write Disable (SRWD)), so
even though the range is now locked, it does not satisfy step (5) -- it
can still be changed by a call to ioctl(MEMUNLOCK).

So, let's enable status register protection after the first lock
command, and disable protection only when the flash is fully unlocked.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
2016-03-07 18:01:55 -08:00
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fsl-quadspi.c mtd: spi-nor: fsl-quadspi: add support for ls1021a 2016-03-07 11:46:44 -08:00
Kconfig mtd: spi-nor: fsl-quadspi: add support for layerscape 2016-03-07 11:46:44 -08:00
Makefile mtd: mtk-nor: new Mediatek serial flash controller driver 2015-11-20 17:35:16 -08:00
mtk-quadspi.c mtd: mtk-nor: Drop bogus __init from mtk_nor_init() 2016-01-15 09:47:00 -08:00
nxp-spifi.c mtd: spi-nor: drop unnecessary partition parser data 2015-11-11 13:58:51 -08:00
spi-nor.c mtd: spi-nor: disallow further writes to SR if WP# is low 2016-03-07 18:01:55 -08:00