Re: [regression] significant delays when secureboot is enabled since 6.10

From: Roberto Sassu
Date: Tue Sep 10 2024 - 05:05:47 EST


On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 11:01 +0200, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten
Leemhuis) wrote:
> Hi, Thorsten here, the Linux kernel's regression tracker.
>
> James, Jarkoo, I noticed a report about a regression in
> bugzilla.kernel.org that appears to be caused by this change of yours:
>
> 6519fea6fd372b ("tpm: add hmac checks to tpm2_pcr_extend()") [v6.10-rc1]
>
> As many (most?) kernel developers don't keep an eye on the bug tracker,
> I decided to forward it by mail. To quote from
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219229 :
>
> > When secureboot is enabled,
> > the kernel boot time is ~20 seconds after 6.10 kernel.
> > it's ~7 seconds on 6.8 kernel version.
> >
> > When secureboot is disabled,
> > the boot time is ~7 seconds too.
> >
> > Reproduced on both AMD and Intel platform on ThinkPad X1 and T14.
> >
> > It probably caused autologin failure and micmute led not loaded on AMD platform.
>
> It was later bisected to the change mentioned above. See the ticket for
> more details.

Hi

I suspect I encountered the same problem:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/b8a7b3566e6014ba102ab98e10ede0d574d8930e.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Going to provide more info there.

Roberto

> Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
> --
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> If I did something stupid, please tell me, as explained on that page.
>
> [1] because bugzilla.kernel.org tells users upon registration their
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>
> P.S.: let me use this mail to also add the report to the list of tracked
> regressions to ensure it's doesn't fall through the cracks:
>
> #regzbot introduced: 6519fea6fd372b
> #regzbot from: Pengyu Ma <mapengyu@xxxxxxxxx>
> #regzbot duplicate: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219229
> #regzbot title: tpm: significant delays when secureboot is enabled
> #regzbot ignore-activity