Re: [PATCH v2 08/11] block: sed-opal: ioctl for writing to shadow mbr

[Jonas Rabenstein]

Hi,
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 02:43:21AM +0100, Jonas Rabenstein wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 04:09:08PM -0600, Scott Bauer wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:36:04AM +0100, Jonas Rabenstein wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 08:52:24PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 07:36:50PM +0100, Jonas Rabenstein wrote:
> > > > I hate doing this as an ioctls.  Can we make this a sysfs binary file
> > > > so that people can use dd or cat to write the shadow mbr?
> > > I already thought about providing a sysfs interface for all that instead
> > > of using ioctls. But as I am pretty new to kernel programming I do not
> > > have all the required insight. Especially, as writing the mbr requires
> > > the sed-opal password I am unsure how a clean sysfs interface to provide
> > > the password together with a simple dd would look like.
Just wanted to ask, how to proceed with those patches/what I should do.
Using sysfs instead of an ioctl is probably easier to use from userspace
_if_ there is a good way to provide the password - which I do not know
of :(
If nobody else could think of a solution, shall writes to the shadow mbr
remain unsupported?

I'ld really appreciate feedback and possible solutions,
 Jonas