[PATCH v3] tpm: Add Upgrade/Reduced mode support for TPM2 modules

From: Borys Movchan
Date: Wed Aug 04 2021 - 12:19:26 EST


If something went wrong during the TPM firmware upgrade, like power
failure or the firmware image file get corrupted, the TPM might end
up in Upgrade or Failure mode upon the next start. The state is
persistent between the TPM power cycle/restart.

According to TPM specification:
* If the TPM is in Upgrade mode, it will answer with TPM2_RC_UPGRADE
to all commands except Field Upgrade related ones.
* If the TPM is in Failure mode, it will allow performing TPM
initialization but will not provide any crypto operations.
Will happily respond to Field Upgrade calls.

The fix changes the behavior of the `tpm2_auto_startup` function, so
it tries to detect what mode TPM is running in. If the chip is in the
Upgrade or Failure mode, the function returns -EIO error code which
can be used later to adjust driver behavior later.
After `tpm_chip_register` calls `tpm2_auto_startup` it checks for the
error code. If the TPM is in Upgrade or Failure mode, set the
`limited_mode` flag. The calls to `tpm2_get_cc_attrs_tbl`,
`tpm_add_hwrng` and `tpm_get_pcr_allocation` will fail if the TPM is
in Failure or Upgrade mode, so use `limited_mode` flag to exclude
them from the module initialization sequence.

Signed-off-by: Borys Movchan <borysmn@xxxxxxxx>
---

Notes:
Commit message updated

drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c | 12 ++++++++++--
include/linux/tpm.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
index ddaeceb7e109..ff2367c447fb 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
@@ -574,20 +574,25 @@ static int tpm_get_pcr_allocation(struct tpm_chip *chip)
int tpm_chip_register(struct tpm_chip *chip)
{
int rc;
+ bool limited_mode = false;

rc = tpm_chip_start(chip);
if (rc)
return rc;
rc = tpm_auto_startup(chip);
- if (rc) {
+ if (rc == -EIO) {
+ limited_mode = true;
+ } else if (rc) {
tpm_chip_stop(chip);
return rc;
}

- rc = tpm_get_pcr_allocation(chip);
- tpm_chip_stop(chip);
- if (rc)
- return rc;
+ if (!limited_mode) {
+ rc = tpm_get_pcr_allocation(chip);
+ tpm_chip_stop(chip);
+ if (rc)
+ return rc;
+ }

tpm_sysfs_add_device(chip);

@@ -595,9 +600,11 @@ int tpm_chip_register(struct tpm_chip *chip)

tpm_add_ppi(chip);

- rc = tpm_add_hwrng(chip);
- if (rc)
- goto out_ppi;
+ if (!limited_mode) {
+ rc = tpm_add_hwrng(chip);
+ if (rc)
+ goto out_ppi;
+ }

rc = tpm_add_char_device(chip);
if (rc)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
index a25815a6f625..7468353ed67d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
@@ -718,7 +718,8 @@ static int tpm2_startup(struct tpm_chip *chip)
* sequence
* @chip: TPM chip to use
*
- * Returns 0 on success, < 0 in case of fatal error.
+ * Returns 0 on success, -ENODEV in case of fatal error,
+ * -EIO in case of Reduced/Upgrade mode
*/
int tpm2_auto_startup(struct tpm_chip *chip)
{
@@ -729,7 +730,10 @@ int tpm2_auto_startup(struct tpm_chip *chip)
goto out;

rc = tpm2_do_selftest(chip);
- if (rc && rc != TPM2_RC_INITIALIZE)
+ if (rc == TPM2_RC_UPGRADE) {
+ rc = -EIO;
+ goto out;
+ } else if (rc && rc != TPM2_RC_INITIALIZE)
goto out;

if (rc == TPM2_RC_INITIALIZE) {
@@ -743,6 +747,10 @@ int tpm2_auto_startup(struct tpm_chip *chip)
}

rc = tpm2_get_cc_attrs_tbl(chip);
+ if (rc) { /* Succeeded until here, but failed -> reduced mode */
+ rc = -EIO;
+ goto out;
+ }

out:
if (rc > 0)
diff --git a/include/linux/tpm.h b/include/linux/tpm.h
index aa11fe323c56..e873c42907f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/tpm.h
+++ b/include/linux/tpm.h
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ enum tpm2_return_codes {
TPM2_RC_INITIALIZE = 0x0100, /* RC_VER1 */
TPM2_RC_FAILURE = 0x0101,
TPM2_RC_DISABLED = 0x0120,
+ TPM2_RC_UPGRADE = 0x012D,
TPM2_RC_COMMAND_CODE = 0x0143,
TPM2_RC_TESTING = 0x090A, /* RC_WARN */
TPM2_RC_REFERENCE_H0 = 0x0910,
--
2.20.1