Re: [PATCH] tpm_tis: use default timeout value if chip reports it as zero

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Mon Jan 16 2017 - 08:55:49 EST


On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 03:46:12PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:42:02AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:37:00PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> > > Since commit 1107d065fdf1 ("tpm_tis: Introduce intermediate layer for TPM
> > > access") Atmel 3203 TPM on ThinkPad X61S (TPM firmware version 13.9) no
> > > longer works.
> > > The initialization proceeds fine until we get and start using chip-reported
> > > timeouts - and the chip reports C and D timeouts of zero.
> > >
> > > It turns out that until commit 8e54caf407b98e ("tpm: Provide a generic
> > > means to override the chip returned timeouts") we had actually let default
> > > timeout values remain in this case, so let's bring back this behavior to
> > > make chips like Atmel 3203 work again.
> > >
> > > Use a common code that was introduced by that commit so a warning is
> > > printed in this case and /sys/class/tpm/tpm*/timeouts correctly says the
> > > timeouts aren't chip-original.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Fixes: 1107d065fdf1 ("tpm_tis: Introduce intermediate layer for TPM access")
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It's now applied to my master branch so if someone wants to
> test it, it should be fairly easy.
>
> /Jarkko

And I decided to squash the rename commit to it.

/Jarkko