Re: [PATCH v2] tpm_tis: reserve chip for duration of tpm_tis_core_init

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 03:07 -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> > These patches take a usable system and make it unusable:
> > 
> > 1ea32c83c699 tpm_tis_core: Set TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ before probing for interrupts
> > 5b359c7c4372 tpm_tis_core: Turn on the TPM before probing IRQ's
> > 
> > ...they need to be reverted, or the regression needs to be fixed, but
> > asserting that you fixed something else unrelated does not help.
> > 
> 
> Reverting 1ea32c83c699 ("tpm_tis_core: Set TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ before
> probing for interrupts") would at least allow people impacted by this
> to boot their systems without disabling the tpm, or blacklisting the
> module while we figure this out. From what I can tell the tpm_tis code
> was operating in that state since 570a36097f30 ("tpm: drop 'irq' from
> struct tpm_vendor_specific") until Stefan's patch.

I'll formalize a fix based on the reverts.

Sorry for the holiday latency.

/Jarkko