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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	axboe@kernel.dk, jaegeuk@kernel.org, chao@kernel.org,
	ulf.hansson@linaro.org, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: security issue: data exposure when using block layer secure erase
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:10:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220318091054.GA31758@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YjIm6f6pSX1CKeqb@gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 06:05:29PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote:
> __blkdev_issue_discard() can break up the region into multiple bios, but I don't
> see where it actually skips parts of the region.  Can you explain more
> specifically where the problem is?

You're right.  We used to skip misaligned parts, but that was actually
fixed two years ago.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-18  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-16  9:37 security issue: data exposure when using block layer secure erase Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-16  9:38 ` [PATCH, alternative 1] block: remove REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE erase Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-16  9:38 ` [PATCH alternative 2] block: fix the REQ_OP_SECURE_ERASE handling to not leak erased data Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-17  9:44   ` Ulf Hansson
2022-03-18  9:11     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-18 10:36       ` Ulf Hansson
2022-03-16 18:05 ` security issue: data exposure when using block layer secure erase Eric Biggers
2022-03-17  9:57   ` Joel Granados
2022-03-18  9:10   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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