[PATCH v4] tpm: fix an invalid condition in tpm_common_poll

From: Tadeusz Struk
Date: Wed Mar 27 2019 - 14:32:43 EST


The poll condition should only check response_length,
because reads should only be issued if there is data to read.
The response_read flag only prevents double writes.
The problem was that the write set the response_read to false,
enqued a tpm job, and returned. Then application called poll
which checked the response_read flag and returned EPOLLIN.
Then the application called read, but got nothing.
After all that the async_work kicked in.
Added also mutex_lock around the poll check to prevent
other possible race conditions.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 9488585b21bef0df12 ("tpm: add support for partial reads")
Reported-by: Mantas MikulÄnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Mantas MikulÄnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
index 5eecad233ea1..744b0237300a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
@@ -203,12 +203,19 @@ __poll_t tpm_common_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
__poll_t mask = 0;

poll_wait(file, &priv->async_wait, wait);
+ mutex_lock(&priv->buffer_mutex);

- if (!priv->response_read || priv->response_length)
+ /*
+ * The response_length indicates if there is still response
+ * (or part of it) to be consumed. Partial reads decrease it
+ * by the number of bytes read, and write resets it the zero.
+ */
+ if (priv->response_length)
mask = EPOLLIN | EPOLLRDNORM;
else
mask = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM;

+ mutex_unlock(&priv->buffer_mutex);
return mask;
}