Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] tpm: add update_durations class op to allow override of chip supplied values

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Tue Oct 01 2019 - 16:53:37 EST


On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 10:45:43AM -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> On Mon Sep 02 19, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> > We've run into a case where a customer has an STM TPM 1.2 chip
> > (version 1.2.8.28), that is getting into an inconsistent state and
> > they end up getting tpm transmit errors. In really old tpm code this
> > wasn't seen because the code that grabbed the duration values from the
> > chip could fail silently, and would proceed to just use default values
> > and move forward. More recent code though successfully gets the
> > duration values from the chip, and using those values this particular
> > chip version gets into the state seen by the customer.
> >
> > The idea with this patchset is to provide a facility like the
> > update_timeouts operation to allow the override of chip supplied
> > values.
> >
> > changes from v3:
> > * Assign value to version when tpm1_getcap is successful for TPM 1.1 device
> > not when it fails.
> >
> > changes from v2:
> > * Added patch 1/3
> > * Rework tpm_tis_update_durations to make use of new version structs
> > and pull tpm1_getcap calls out of loop.
> >
> > changes from v1:
> > * Remove unneeded newline
> > * Formatting cleanups
> > * Change tpm_tis_update_durations to be a void function, and
> > use chip->duration_adjusted to track whether adjustment was
> > made.
> >
> > Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
> > tpm: Remove duplicate code from caps_show() in tpm-sysfs.c
> >
> > Jerry Snitselaar (2):
> > tpm: provide a way to override the chip returned durations
> > tpm_tis: override durations for STM tpm with firmware 1.2.8.28
> >
> >
>
> Anyone else have any feedback on this patchset?

Thanks for reminding. I'll put this to my master soonish.

/Jarkko