Re: [PATCH] TPM: Long default timeout fix

[Michal Schmidt]

James,

what is the status of this patch from Rajiv? It has been in Fedora
kernels for some time, but I do not see it applied upstream:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:18:50 -0200 Rajiv Andrade wrote:
> If duration variable value is 0 at this point, it's because
> chip->vendor.duration wasn't filled by tpm_get_timeouts() yet.
> This patch sets then the lowest timeout just to give enough
> time for tpm_get_timeouts() to further succeed.
> 
> This fix avoids long boot times in case another entity attempts
> to send commands to the TPM when the TPM isn't accessible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c |   10 ++++++----
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
> index 7c41335..5635ac0 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
> @@ -364,12 +364,14 @@ unsigned long tpm_calc_ordinal_duration(struct
> tpm_chip *chip, tpm_protected_ordinal_duration[ordinal &
>  						   TPM_PROTECTED_ORDINAL_MASK];
>  
> -	if (duration_idx != TPM_UNDEFINED)
> +	if (duration_idx != TPM_UNDEFINED) {
>  		duration = chip->vendor.duration[duration_idx];
> -	if (duration <= 0)
> +		/* if duration is 0, it's because
> chip->vendor.duration wasn't */
> +		/* filled yet, so we set the lowest timeout just to
> give enough */
> +		/* time for tpm_get_timeouts() to succeed */
> +		return (duration <= 0 ? HZ : duration);
> +	} else 
>  		return 2 * 60 * HZ;
> -	else
> -		return duration;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tpm_calc_ordinal_duration);
>  
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