Re: [PATCH 0/5] Fix whole native SPI TPM driver

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:32:17PM +0100, Peter Huewe wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 22. Februar 2017 22:19:24 MEZ schrieb Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 04:08:21PM +0000, Peter Huewe wrote:
> >> During our testing it showed that unfortunately the whole native spi
> >tpm driver
> >> was more or less non-functional since it was merged, e.g. the wrong
> >byte for
> >> waitstate handling was used and transfers larger than 64 bytes did
> >not work at all.
> >> 
> >> This was probably caused by the merging of the different approaches
> >back then,
> >> as the initial RFC patch did not have these problems, and also my
> >sudden lack
> >> of time/commitment back then.
> >> I'm sorry that the final driver code went untested for that long
> >time.
> >> 
> >> This patch set fixes these issues one by one.
> >> In order to avoid duplication the read/write function was
> >consolidated to one
> >> transfer function, so we do not have to apply the same fix at two
> >locations.
> >> Maybe consider squashing it - we splitted it for easier review.
> >>  
> >> Affected Kernels: 4.8, 4.9, 4.10
> >> Patchset was tested on Raspberry Pi2 with SLB9670 (TPM1.2 and TPM2.0)
> >> 
> >> Peter Huewe (5):
> >>   tpm_tis_spi: Use single function to transfer data
> >>   tpm_tis_spi: Abort transfer when too many wait states are signaled
> >>   tpm_tis_spi: Check correct byte for wait state indicator
> >>   tpm_tis_spi: Remove limitation of transfers to MAX_SPI_FRAMESIZE
> >bytes
> >>   tpm_tis_spi: Add small delay after last transfer
> >> 
> >>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi.c | 163
> >+++++++++++++++++------------------------
> >>  1 file changed, 69 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> 2.7.4
> >> 
> >
> >I also found type errors a whilea ago:
> >
> >https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9547993/
> >
> >Do this take care of these issues? 
> Not that I'm aware of.
> We did not test it on any big endian system yet so the problem never became visible.
> 
> In any case it would be really nice to see this patchset to be applied so people have a working,but maybe not perfect, spi tpm on the common little endian platforms.
> When do you think you can merge and pull-request them?
> 
> Peter

Please fix 4/5 and send v2. Other patches were fine.

/Jarkko