Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] tpm: add update_durations class op to allow override of chip supplied values

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 07:27:32AM -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> We've run into a case where a customer has an STM TPM 1.2 chip
> (version 1.2.8.28), that is getting into an inconsistent state and
> they end up getting tpm transmit errors.  In really old tpm code this
> wasn't seen because the code that grabbed the duration values from the
> chip could fail silently, and would proceed to just use default values
> and move forward. More recent code though successfully gets the
> duration values from the chip, and using those values this particular
> chip version gets into the state seen by the customer.
> 
> The idea with this patchset is to provide a facility like the
> update_timeouts operation to allow the override of chip supplied
> values.
> 
> changes from v3:
>     * Assign value to version when tpm1_getcap is successful for TPM 1.1 device
>       not when it fails.
> 
> changes from v2:
>     * Added patch 1/3
>     * Rework tpm_tis_update_durations to make use of new version structs
>       and pull tpm1_getcap calls out of loop.
> 
> changes from v1:
>     * Remove unneeded newline
>     * Formatting cleanups
>     * Change tpm_tis_update_durations to be a void function, and
>       use chip->duration_adjusted to track whether adjustment was
>       made.
> 
> Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
>       tpm: Remove duplicate code from caps_show() in tpm-sysfs.c
> 
> Jerry Snitselaar (2):
>       tpm: provide a way to override the chip returned durations
>       tpm_tis: override durations for STM tpm with firmware 1.2.8.28
> 
> 

I applied to my master branch.

Probably hard to get wide testing given the "niche" case when the
issue happens. Should be sufficient that the commonc case still
works.

/Jarkko