Re: [PATCH 1/2] tpm: Add per-chip timeout for transient unavailability

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 02:28:33PM +0000, Surendran Kanagaraj wrote:
> TPM commands need to complete within the command duration defined
> in the TPM2 spec or to keep answering TPM2_RC_RETRY for at most
> TPM2_DURATION_LONG (2s).
> 
> Devices that have different timeout requirements than the TPM2 spec
> could exhaust the retry budget or exceed the command duration. These
> failures disable the device during an auth session, failing all
> subsequent TPM requests. Worse, when a TPM2_CC_FLUSH_CONTEXT command
> fails, it leaks the TPM's transient memory:
> 
>     tpm tpm0: in retry loop
>     tpm tpm0: tpm2_load_context: failed with a TPM error 0x0922
>     ...
>     tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2338) occurred flushing context
> 
> Fix this by adding chip->busy_timeout_ms to support devices that know
> the expected delay window. This value raises the TPM2_RC_RETRY retry
> budget and per-command durations to at least busy_timeout_ms. Chips
> that leave it at 0 keep the current timeouts. The driver sets it for
> NitroTPM in the following patch.
> 
> Tested with CONFIG_TCG_TPM2_HMAC=y and the following patch with the
> NitroTPM quirk applied, in QEMU with swtpm by stalling commands and
> holding the TPM in TPM2_RC_RETRY.
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Surendran Kanagaraj <surenkj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 11 ++++++++---
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h           |  2 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c      | 17 ++++++++++++-----
>  include/linux/tpm.h              |  7 +++++++
>  4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> index 0bab78c8767c..a423395b201a 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(suspend_pcr,
>  unsigned long tpm_calc_ordinal_duration(struct tpm_chip *chip, u32 ordinal)
>  {
>  	if (chip->flags & TPM_CHIP_FLAG_TPM2)
> -		return tpm2_calc_ordinal_duration(ordinal);
> +		return tpm2_calc_ordinal_duration(chip, ordinal);
>  	else
>  		return tpm1_calc_ordinal_duration(chip, ordinal);
>  }
> @@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ static ssize_t tpm_try_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip, void *buf, size_t bufsiz)
>   *
>   * A wrapper around tpm_try_transmit() that handles TPM2_RC_RETRY returns from
>   * the TPM and retransmits the command after a delay up to a maximum wait of
> - * TPM2_DURATION_LONG.
> + * TPM2_DURATION_LONG, or chip->busy_timeout_ms when the driver declared a
> + * longer transient unavailability window.
>   *
>   * Note that TPM 1.x never returns TPM2_RC_RETRY so the retry logic is TPM 2.0
>   * only.
> @@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ ssize_t tpm_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 *buf, size_t bufsiz)
>  	/* space for header and handles */
>  	u8 save[TPM_HEADER_SIZE + 3*sizeof(u32)];
>  	unsigned int delay_msec = TPM2_DURATION_SHORT;
> +	unsigned int max_delay_msec = TPM2_DURATION_LONG;
>  	u32 rc = 0;
>  	ssize_t ret;
>  	const size_t save_size = min(sizeof(save), bufsiz);
> @@ -241,6 +243,9 @@ ssize_t tpm_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 *buf, size_t bufsiz)
>  	 */
>  	memcpy(save, buf, save_size);
>  
> +	if (chip->busy_timeout_ms > max_delay_msec)
> +		max_delay_msec = chip->busy_timeout_ms;
> +
>  	for (;;) {
>  		ret = tpm_try_transmit(chip, buf, bufsiz);
>  		if (ret < 0)
> @@ -255,7 +260,7 @@ ssize_t tpm_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 *buf, size_t bufsiz)
>  		if (rc == TPM2_RC_TESTING && cc == TPM2_CC_SELF_TEST)
>  			break;
>  
> -		if (delay_msec > TPM2_DURATION_LONG) {
> +		if (delay_msec > max_delay_msec) {
>  			if (rc == TPM2_RC_RETRY)
>  				dev_err(&chip->dev, "in retry loop\n");
>  			else
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> index fa554c5ad80b..457eba8d03dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ ssize_t tpm2_get_tpm_pt(struct tpm_chip *chip, u32 property_id,
>  ssize_t tpm2_get_pcr_allocation(struct tpm_chip *chip);
>  int tpm2_auto_startup(struct tpm_chip *chip);
>  void tpm2_shutdown(struct tpm_chip *chip, u16 shutdown_type);
> -unsigned long tpm2_calc_ordinal_duration(u32 ordinal);
> +unsigned long tpm2_calc_ordinal_duration(struct tpm_chip *chip, u32 ordinal);
>  int tpm2_probe(struct tpm_chip *chip);
>  int tpm2_get_cc_attrs_tbl(struct tpm_chip *chip);
>  int tpm2_find_cc(struct tpm_chip *chip, u32 cc);
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
> index ae22295df798..dc5ed57fefe1 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
> @@ -78,20 +78,27 @@ static const struct {
>  
>  /**
>   * tpm2_calc_ordinal_duration() - Calculate the maximum command duration
> + * @chip:	TPM chip to use.
>   * @ordinal: TPM command ordinal.
>   *
>   * Returns the maximum amount of time the chip is expected by kernel to
> - * take in jiffies.
> + * take in jiffies. The duration is never lower than chip->busy_timeout_ms.
>   */
> -unsigned long tpm2_calc_ordinal_duration(u32 ordinal)
> +unsigned long tpm2_calc_ordinal_duration(struct tpm_chip *chip, u32 ordinal)
>  {
> +	unsigned long duration = TPM2_DURATION_DEFAULT;
>  	int i;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(tpm2_ordinal_duration_map); i++)
> -		if (ordinal == tpm2_ordinal_duration_map[i].ordinal)
> -			return msecs_to_jiffies(tpm2_ordinal_duration_map[i].duration);
> +		if (ordinal == tpm2_ordinal_duration_map[i].ordinal) {
> +			duration = tpm2_ordinal_duration_map[i].duration;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
> +	if (duration < chip->busy_timeout_ms)
> +		duration = chip->busy_timeout_ms;
>  
> -	return msecs_to_jiffies(TPM2_DURATION_DEFAULT);
> +	return msecs_to_jiffies(duration);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> diff --git a/include/linux/tpm.h b/include/linux/tpm.h
> index 0db277af45c3..7089067412d3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/tpm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/tpm.h
> @@ -140,6 +140,13 @@ struct tpm_chip {
>  	unsigned long duration[TPM_NUM_DURATIONS]; /* jiffies */
>  	bool duration_adjusted;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Longest unavailability expected from the chip in ms. Raises the
> +	 * TPM2_RC_RETRY retry budget and the per-command durations to at
> +	 * least this value; 0 keeps the defaults.
> +	 */
> +	unsigned int busy_timeout_ms;

So I think this is a wrong solution.

Instead this should be tpm_crb internal and you should simply patch
chip->duration[]. See tpm_tis_core for example.

> +
>  	struct dentry *bios_dir;
>  
>  	const struct attribute_group *groups[3 + TPM_MAX_HASHES];
> -- 
> 2.47.3
> 

Br, Jarkko