A throw once master enable switch to protect against any
further overlay applications if the administrator desires so.

Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.anton...@konsulko.com>
---
 drivers/of/overlay.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/overlay.c b/drivers/of/overlay.c
index f17f5ef..37ec858 100644
--- a/drivers/of/overlay.c
+++ b/drivers/of/overlay.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/idr.h>
 #include <linux/sysfs.h>
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
 
 #include "of_private.h"
 
@@ -55,8 +56,12 @@ struct of_overlay {
        struct kobject kobj;
 };
 
+/* master enable switch; once set to 0 can't be re-enabled */
+static atomic_t ov_enable = ATOMIC_INIT(1);
+
 static int of_overlay_apply_one(struct of_overlay *ov,
                struct device_node *target, const struct device_node *overlay);
+static int overlay_removal_is_ok(struct of_overlay *ov);
 
 static int of_overlay_apply_single_property(struct of_overlay *ov,
                struct device_node *target, struct property *prop)
@@ -339,6 +344,35 @@ void of_overlay_release(struct kobject *kobj)
        kfree(ov);
 }
 
+static ssize_t enable_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+               struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+       return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", atomic_read(&ov_enable));
+}
+
+static ssize_t enable_store(struct kobject *kobj,
+               struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+       int ret;
+       bool new_enable;
+
+       ret = strtobool(buf, &new_enable);
+       if (ret != 0)
+               return ret;
+       /* if we've disabled it, no going back */
+       if (atomic_read(&ov_enable) == 0)
+               return -EPERM;
+       atomic_set(&ov_enable, (int)new_enable);
+       return count;
+}
+
+static struct kobj_attribute enable_attr = __ATTR_RW(enable);
+
+static const struct attribute *overlay_global_attrs[] = {
+       &enable_attr.attr,
+       NULL
+};
+
 static struct kobj_type of_overlay_ktype = {
        .release = of_overlay_release,
 };
@@ -360,6 +394,10 @@ int of_overlay_create(struct device_node *tree)
        struct of_overlay *ov;
        int err, id;
 
+       /* administratively disabled */
+       if (!atomic_read(&ov_enable))
+               return -EPERM;
+
        /* allocate the overlay structure */
        ov = kzalloc(sizeof(*ov), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (ov == NULL)
@@ -596,5 +634,8 @@ int of_overlay_init(void)
        if (!ov_kset)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-       return 0;
+       rc = sysfs_create_files(&ov_kset->kobj, overlay_global_attrs);
+       WARN(rc, "%s: error adding global attributes\n", __func__);
+
+       return rc;
 }
-- 
1.7.12

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