Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH v2] tpm: fix: sanitized code paths in tpm_chip_register()

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Fri Mar 20 2015 - 03:44:05 EST


On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 16:05 +0000, Scot Doyle wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > I started to work with PPI interface so that it would be available
> > under character device sysfs directory and realized that chip
> > registeration was still too messy.
> >
> > In TPM 1.x in some rare scenarios (errors that almost never occur)
> > wrong order in deinitialization steps was taken in teardown. I
> > reproduced these scenarios by manually inserting error codes in the
> > place of the corresponding function calls.
> >
> > The key problem is that the teardown is messy with two separate code
> > paths (this was inherited when moving code from tpm-interface.c).
> >
> > Moved TPM 1.x specific register/unregister functionality to own helper
> > functions and added single code path for teardown in tpm_chip_register().
> > Now the code paths have been fixed and it should be easier to review
> > later on this part of the code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> CONFIG_TCG_TPM=y
> CONFIG_TCG_TIS=y
> # CONFIG_TCG_TIS_I2C_ATMEL is not set
> # CONFIG_TCG_TIS_I2C_INFINEON is not set
> # CONFIG_TCG_TIS_I2C_NUVOTON is not set
> # CONFIG_TCG_NSC is not set
> # CONFIG_TCG_ATMEL is not set
> # CONFIG_TCG_INFINEON is not set
> # CONFIG_TCG_CRB is not set
>
> [0.236145] tpm_tis 00:08: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0xB, rev-id 16)
> [0.292769] tpm_tis 00:08: [Firmware Bug]: TPM interrupt not working, polling instead
>
> and suspend/resume continue to function.
>
> Tested-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

/Jarkko


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