[PATCH] mtd: require write permissions for locking and badblock ioctls

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Wed Mar 3 15:57:35 GMT 2021


MEMLOCK, MEMUNLOCK and OTPLOCK modify protection bits. Thus require
write permission. Depending on the hardware MEMLOCK might even be
write-once, e.g. for SPI-NOR flashes with their WP# tied to GND. OTPLOCK
is always write-once.

MEMSETBADBLOCK modifies the bad block table.

Fixes: f7e6b19bc764 ("mtd: properly check all write ioctls for permissions")
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>
---
 drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
index 57c4a2f0b703..30c8273c1eff 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
@@ -643,16 +643,12 @@ static int mtdchar_ioctl(struct file *file, u_int cmd, u_long arg)
 	case MEMGETINFO:
 	case MEMREADOOB:
 	case MEMREADOOB64:
-	case MEMLOCK:
-	case MEMUNLOCK:
 	case MEMISLOCKED:
 	case MEMGETOOBSEL:
 	case MEMGETBADBLOCK:
-	case MEMSETBADBLOCK:
 	case OTPSELECT:
 	case OTPGETREGIONCOUNT:
 	case OTPGETREGIONINFO:
-	case OTPLOCK:
 	case ECCGETLAYOUT:
 	case ECCGETSTATS:
 	case MTDFILEMODE:
@@ -663,9 +659,13 @@ static int mtdchar_ioctl(struct file *file, u_int cmd, u_long arg)
 	/* "dangerous" commands */
 	case MEMERASE:
 	case MEMERASE64:
+	case MEMLOCK:
+	case MEMUNLOCK:
+	case MEMSETBADBLOCK:
 	case MEMWRITEOOB:
 	case MEMWRITEOOB64:
 	case MEMWRITE:
+	case OTPLOCK:
 		if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
 			return -EPERM;
 		break;
-- 
2.20.1




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