Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] tpm: Popping noise in USB headphones since 1b6d7f9eb150

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Tue Nov 26, 2024 at 1:42 PM EET, Christian Heusel wrote:
> On 24/10/25 05:47PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Yeah, this is on the list.
> > 
> > See: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219383#c5
> > 
> > I had a fix for the AMD boot-time issue already over a month ago
> > but unfortunately took time to get enough feedback.
> > 
> > BR, Jarkko
>
> I'm not sure if this is supposed to be fixed, but AFAIK we hoped that
> the patchset that was mentioned in bugzilla also helped this issue.
>
> The reporter said that the bug is still present in 6.12.1, so this might
> need further poking 🤔

I'd suggest a workaround for the time being.

In 6.12 we added this for (heavy) IMA use:

tpm.disable_pcr_integrity= [HW,TPM]
                        Do not protect PCR registers from unintended physical
                        access, or interposers in the bus by the means of
                        having an integrity protected session wrapped around
                        TPM2_PCR_Extend command. Consider this in a situation
                        where TPM is heavily utilized by IMA, thus protection
                        causing a major performance hit, and the space where
                        machines are deployed is by other means guarded.

Similarly it might make sense to have "tpm.disable_random_integrity"
that disables the feature introduced by the failing commit.

What do you think?

>
> Cheers,
> Chris

BR, Jarkko