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nvdimm: Allow overwrite in the presence of disabled dimms
[ Upstream commit bb7bf69 ] It is not clear why the original implementation of overwrite support required the dimm driver to be active before overwrite could proceed. In fact that can lead to cases where the kernel retains an invalid cached copy of the labels from before the overwrite. Unfortunately the kernel has not only allowed that case, but enforced it. Going forward, allow for overwrite to happen while the label area is offline, and follow-on with updates to 'ndctl sanitize-dimm --overwrite' to trigger the label area invalidation by default. Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Reported-by: Krzysztof Kensicki <krzysztof.kensicki@intel.com> Fixes: 7d98809 ("acpi/nfit, libnvdimm/security: Add security DSM overwrite support") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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