Re: [Regression Linux 4.11] TPM module not loaded anymore (was: Regression between Linux 3.16 and 4.8/4.9 on Lenovo X60 with coreboot)

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 07:34:43PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Linux folks,
> 
> 
> It turns out that stricter checks in the ACPI subsystem, introduced in
> commit 57707a9a77 (ACPICA: Resources: Not a valid resource if buffer
> length too long) [1], cause the TPM module not to be loaded anymore on
> the Lenovo X60 with coreboot [2].
> 
> Am Freitag, den 07.04.2017, 22:58 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> > On 2017-04-07 22:13, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 01:10:13PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 08:26:22PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > >> > >We added direct ACPI binding to the driver in addition to PNP, so if
> > >> > >you have an ACPI table it goes down that path and does some additional
> > >> > >validation of what is in the TPM. The BIOS must provide a
> > >> > >acpi_dev_resource_memory and a ACPI_SIG_TPM2 for the ACPI entry at a
> > >> > >minimum.
> > >> >
> > >> > Is it correct, that this is added in/for 4.11, so just recently? Testing
> > >> > with Linux 4.10.8, everything is detected just fine.
> > >> 
> > >> No, it is quite a bit older.. And it should only go for TPM2, which I
> > >> don't think you have??
> > >> 
> > >> Maybe Jarkko has a guess, but sure sounds like something is recently
> > >> broken in 4.11
> > > 
> > > I'll come back to this. I have to re-read the whole mail thread to
> > > get back into the context. Lots of multitasking because of release
> > > and so forth. Sorry for the latency!
> > 
> > I started bisecting this issue. This is the current state.
> 
> [â]
> 
> Here are the results.
> 
> ```
> git bisect log
> # bad: [7a771ceac771d009f7203c40b256b0608d7ea2f8] Merge tag 'dm-4.11-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
> # good: [c470abd4fde40ea6a0846a2beab642a578c0b8cd] Linux 4.10
> git bisect start 'HEAD' 'v4.10'
> # good: [b3de5ad688f0f52457e73767f95a640ab4158d0d] Merge tag 'regmap-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap
> git bisect good b3de5ad688f0f52457e73767f95a640ab4158d0d
> # bad: [fd4a61e08aa79f2b7835b25c6f94f27bd2d65990] sched/core: Fix build paravirt build on arm and arm64
> git bisect bad fd4a61e08aa79f2b7835b25c6f94f27bd2d65990
> # good: [7aa7d608112baf63a0b1278955f9619427373807] Merge tag 'leds_for_4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/j.anaszewski/linux-leds
> git bisect good 7aa7d608112baf63a0b1278955f9619427373807
> # good: [02c3de1105228e367320e7fdeffbf511904f398c] Merge tag 'pm-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
> git bisect good 02c3de1105228e367320e7fdeffbf511904f398c
> # bad: [6c24337f22115d669e24ce990842dab667371b4d] Merge tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt
> git bisect bad 6c24337f22115d669e24ce990842dab667371b4d
> # bad: [a74d1cafc22e100a9b59c50943ca09c37e03dce8] Merge branches 'acpi-bus', 'acpi-sleep' and 'acpi-processor'
> git bisect bad a74d1cafc22e100a9b59c50943ca09c37e03dce8
> # bad: [ce87e09dd88c61f9088768a7708828423549725c] ACPICA: Parser: Allow method invocations as target operands
> git bisect bad ce87e09dd88c61f9088768a7708828423549725c
> # good: [0fc5e8f4e4b33ddfa1d1d673fcd420d6e13eb076] ACPICA: Hardware: Add sleep register hooks
> git bisect good 0fc5e8f4e4b33ddfa1d1d673fcd420d6e13eb076
> # good: [a654b8ca6d28736995de767ba62e801fd806a3b2] ACPICA: Disassembler: Add Switch/Case disassembly support
> git bisect good a654b8ca6d28736995de767ba62e801fd806a3b2
> # bad: [57707a9a7780fab426b8ae9b4c7b65b912a748b3] ACPICA: Resources: Not a valid resource if buffer length too long
> git bisect bad 57707a9a7780fab426b8ae9b4c7b65b912a748b3
> # good: [7225d0467c59e55566df396d6ecd5baf26ef3d9b] ACPICA: Utilities: Update debug output
> git bisect good 7225d0467c59e55566df396d6ecd5baf26ef3d9b
> # first bad commit: [57707a9a7780fab426b8ae9b4c7b65b912a748b3] ACPICA: Resources: Not a valid resource if buffer length too long
> ```
> 
> I suggest, that just a warning is printed in this case, or that an
> option is added to enable some kind of âstrict modeâ or a quirk table.
> 
> Please find the decompiled DSDT attached. The code to generate the ASL
> coreboot code is available [3].
> 
> Please tell me, what information you need.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=57707a9a778
> [2] https://review.coreboot.org/13410/
> [3] https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/tree/src/drivers/pc80/tpm/tpm.c

Hi,

Thank you for bisecting the issue. It would have been hard to achieve this
without the hardware. Do you want to create a patch for ACPICA?

/Jarkko