Re: [REGRESSION] suspend to ram fails in 6.2-rc1 due to tpm errors

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 03:06:47PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 01:47:38PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > On 3/14/23, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 10:35:33AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > >> On 09.01.23 17:08, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > >> > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 02:59:15PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > >> >> On 29.12.22 05:03, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > >> >>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 06:07:25PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > >> >>>> On Wed, 2022-12-28 at 21:22 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > >> >>>>> Ugh, while the problem [1] was fixed in 6.1, it's now happening
> > >> >>>>> again
> > >> >>>>> on the T460 with 6.2-rc1. Except I didn't see any oops message or
> > >> >>>>> "tpm_try_transmit" error this time. The first indication of a
> > >> >>>>> problem
> > >> >>>>> is this during a resume from suspend to ram:
> > >> >>>>> tpm tpm0: A TPM error (28) occurred continue selftest
> > >> >>>>> and then periodically
> > >> >>>>> tpm tpm0: A TPM error (28) occurred attempting get random
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> That's a TPM 1.2 error which means the TPM failed the selftest.  The
> > >> >>>> original problem was reported against TPM 2.0  because of a missing
> > >> >>>> try_get_ops().
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> No, I'm pretty sure the original bug, which was fixed by "char: tpm:
> > >> >>> Protect tpm_pm_suspend with locks" regards 1.2 as well, especially
> > >> >>> considering it's the same hardware from Vlastimil causing this. I
> > >> >>> also
> > >> >>> recall seeing this in 1.2 when I ran this with the TPM emulator. So
> > >> >>> that's not correct.
> > >> > [...]
> > >> > So, this is now in rc3:
> > >> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1382999aa0548a171a272ca817f6c38e797c458c
> > >> >
> > >> > That should help avoid the worst of the issue -- laptop not sleeping.
> > >> > But the race or whatever it is still does exist. So you might want to
> > >> > keep this in your tracker to periodically nudge the TPM folks about it.
> > >>
> > >> I did, and with -rc2 out now is a good time to remind everybody about
> > >> it. Jarkko even looked into it, but no real fix emerged afaics. Or did
> > >> it?
> > >
> > > Jason's workaround was picked. I asked some questions in the thread but
> > > have not received any responses.
> > 
> > As I've written several times now, that patch doesn't fix the issue.
> > It makes it less common but it still exists and needs to be addressed.
> > Please re-read my various messages describing this. I have nothing new
> > at all to add; you just need to review my prior comments. There's a
> > bug that probably needs to be fixed here by somebody who understands
> > the tpm1 code.
> 
> I'll try qemu path to see if I can reproduce it with/without the already
> merged workaround.

BTW, what sort of environment you had for your qemu run? I'm creating a
simple initramfs with buildroot for this.

BR, Jarkko