Re: [PATCH] tpm: don't destroy chip device prematurely

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 07:05:48AM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 01:24:55PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 01:17:55PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 10:39:31AM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > > > In tpm_del_char_device device_del is called prior to tpm2_shutdown
> > > > > where it is still used.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fortunately, so far chip->dev was used only for printouts int
> > > > > tpm2_shutdown flow, hence system didn't crash. But with the
> > > > > introduction of runtime power management it will result in
> > > > > shutting down the parent device while it still in use.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixes: 20e0152393b41 ("tpm: fix crash in tpm_tis
> > > > > deinitialization")
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Applied.
> > 
> > This patch is wrong, I though the comments were clear. All entry points to find
> > the device must be deleted before we commit to shutting down the device.
> > 
> > You need to figure out some other way to solve your problem.
> 
> Please  be more specific regarding flows you think will be wrong  with
> this patch, you must agree that the current code is broken even w/o
> runtime pm.

Make the driver uncallable first. The worst race that can happen is that
open("/dev/tpm0", ...) returns -EPIPE. I do not consider this fatal at
all.

> Thanks
> Tomas

/Jarkko