Re: [PATCH v3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Suppress error logging when in closed state

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 06:29:13PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> Suppress the error logging when the core TPM driver sends commands
> to the VTPM proxy driver and -EPIPE is returned in case the VTPM
> proxy driver is 'closed' (closed anonymous file descriptor).  This
> error code is only returned by the send function and by tpm_transmit
> when the VTPM proxy driver is being used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviwed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

/Jarkko

> ---
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 5 +++--
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c      | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> index d711186..d2b4df6 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> @@ -430,8 +430,9 @@ ssize_t tpm_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip, struct tpm_space *space,
>  
>  	rc = chip->ops->send(chip, (u8 *) buf, count);
>  	if (rc < 0) {
> -		dev_err(&chip->dev,
> -			"tpm_transmit: tpm_send: error %d\n", rc);
> +		if (rc != -EPIPE)
> +			dev_err(&chip->dev,
> +				"%s: tpm_send: error %d\n", __func__, rc);
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
> index 3ee6883..3a99643 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
> @@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ void tpm2_shutdown(struct tpm_chip *chip, u16 shutdown_type)
>  	/* In places where shutdown command is sent there's no much we can do
>  	 * except print the error code on a system failure.
>  	 */
> -	if (rc < 0)
> +	if (rc < 0 && rc != -EPIPE)
>  		dev_warn(&chip->dev, "transmit returned %d while stopping the TPM",
>  			 rc);
>  }
> -- 
> 2.4.3
>