Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix race condition in tpm_common_write()

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Wed May 23 2018 - 14:48:11 EST


On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:57:07AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> On 05/23/2018 06:23 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Ouch o_O Do you have a fixes tag for this one?
> >
>
> This one is quite tricky.
> The original bug was introduced by abce9ac292e13 (tpm: Propagate error from tpm_transmit to fix a timeout hang)
> and the code back then was in drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c file

No, it has been wrong since before git history started, so just use

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")

All the other commits you listed are just moving the bad code around
to new files.

Jason