Re: [PATCH] Refuse activation of tpm_tis driver if TPM is not workingcorrectly

From: Rajiv Andrade
Date: Mon Oct 10 2011 - 09:04:48 EST


On 10/10/11 09:16, Stefan Berger wrote:
Refuse activation of tpm_tis driver if the TPM is found not to be
working correctly. This prevents suspend/resume problems for me on
Lenovo W500 and T61p.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger<stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Testing and trying to reproduce it here.

Rajiv

---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c
index 3f4051a..7f2761d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c
@@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ static int tpm_tis_init(struct device *dev, resource_size_t start,
u32 vendor, intfcaps, intmask;
int rc, i, irq_s, irq_e;
struct tpm_chip *chip;
+ u8 digest[TPM_DIGEST_SIZE];

if (!(chip = tpm_register_hardware(dev,&tpm_tis)))
return -ENODEV;
@@ -616,6 +617,18 @@ static int tpm_tis_init(struct device *dev, resource_size_t start,
/* get the timeouts before testing for irqs */
tpm_get_timeouts(chip);

+ /* test for correctly working TPM; refuse driver if not working
+ to prevent suspend/resume problems */
+ rc = tpm_pcr_read(chip->dev_num, 0, digest);
+ if (rc != 0) {
+ dev_err(dev, "Could not read PCR 0. "
+ "TPM is not working correctly.\n");
+ dev_err(dev, "Was machine previously suspended without TPM "
+ "driver present?\n");
+ rc = -ENODEV;
+ goto out_err;
+ }
+
/* INTERRUPT Setup */
init_waitqueue_head(&chip->vendor.read_queue);
init_waitqueue_head(&chip->vendor.int_queue);

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