Re: [PATCH v2] tpm, tpm_tis: Workaround failed command reception on Infineon devices

From: Paul Menzel
Date: Mon Mar 10 2025 - 10:13:06 EST


Dear Jonathan,


Some nits, should you resend. Feel free to ignore. The verb *work around* is spelled with a space.

Am 10.03.25 um 13:19 schrieb Jonathan McDowell:
From: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@xxxxxxxx>

Some Infineon devices have a issue where the status register will get
stuck with a quick REQUEST_USE / COMMAND_READY sequence. This is not
simply a matter of requiring a longer timeout; the work around is to

The noun without. ;-)

retry the command submission. Add appropriate logic to do this in the
send path.

Does the workaround have downsides?

This is fixed in later firmware revisions, but those are not always
available, and cannot generally be easily updated from outside a
firmware environment.

Please mention the affected revisions. Is there an errata for tis.

Testing has been performed with a simple repeated loop of doing a
TPM2_CC_GET_CAPABILITY for TPM_CAP_PROP_MANUFACTURER using the Go code
at:

 https://the.earth.li/~noodles/tpm-stuff/timeout-reproducer-simple.go

Awesome. Thank you for sharing.

It can take several hours to reproduce, and several million operations.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@xxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Rename flag to TPM_TIS_STATUS_VALID_RETRY

 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.h |  1 +
 include/linux/tpm.h             |  1 +
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c b/drivers/char/tpm/ tpm_tis_core.c
index c969a1793184..4ab69c3e103c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
@@ -463,7 +463,10 @@ static int tpm_tis_send_data(struct tpm_chip *chip, const u8 *buf, size_t len)

         if (wait_for_tpm_stat(chip, TPM_STS_VALID, chip->timeout_c,
                     &priv->int_queue, false) < 0) {
-            rc = -ETIME;
+            if (test_bit(TPM_TIS_STATUS_VALID_RETRY, &priv->flags))
+                rc = -EAGAIN;
+            else
+                rc = -ETIME;

I’d use a ternary operator as the same variable is assigned to.

             goto out_err;
         }
         status = tpm_tis_status(chip);
@@ -480,7 +483,10 @@ static int tpm_tis_send_data(struct tpm_chip *chip, const u8 *buf, size_t len)

     if (wait_for_tpm_stat(chip, TPM_STS_VALID, chip->timeout_c,
                 &priv->int_queue, false) < 0) {
-        rc = -ETIME;
+        if (test_bit(TPM_TIS_STATUS_VALID_RETRY, &priv->flags))
+            rc = -EAGAIN;
+        else
+            rc = -ETIME;
         goto out_err;
     }
     status = tpm_tis_status(chip);
@@ -545,9 +551,11 @@ static int tpm_tis_send_main(struct tpm_chip *chip, const u8 *buf, size_t len)
         if (rc >= 0)
             /* Data transfer done successfully */
             break;
-        else if (rc != -EIO)
+        else if (rc != EAGAIN && rc != -EIO)
             /* Data transfer failed, not recoverable */
             return rc;
+
+        usleep_range(priv->timeout_min, priv->timeout_max);
     }

     /* go and do it */
@@ -1143,6 +1151,9 @@ int tpm_tis_core_init(struct device *dev, struct tpm_tis_data *priv, int irq,
         priv->timeout_max = TIS_TIMEOUT_MAX_ATML;
     }

+    if (priv->manufacturer_id == TPM_VID_IFX)
+        set_bit(TPM_TIS_STATUS_VALID_RETRY, &priv->flags);
+
     if (is_bsw()) {
         priv->ilb_base_addr = ioremap(INTEL_LEGACY_BLK_BASE_ADDR,
                     ILB_REMAP_SIZE);
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.h b/drivers/char/tpm/ tpm_tis_core.h
index 690ad8e9b731..970d02c337c7 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.h
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.h
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ enum tpm_tis_flags {
     TPM_TIS_INVALID_STATUS        = 1,
     TPM_TIS_DEFAULT_CANCELLATION    = 2,
     TPM_TIS_IRQ_TESTED        = 3,
+    TPM_TIS_STATUS_VALID_RETRY    = 4,
 };

 struct tpm_tis_data {
diff --git a/include/linux/tpm.h b/include/linux/tpm.h
index 20a40ade8030..6c3125300c00 100644
--- a/include/linux/tpm.h
+++ b/include/linux/tpm.h
@@ -335,6 +335,7 @@ enum tpm2_cc_attrs {
 #define TPM_VID_WINBOND  0x1050
 #define TPM_VID_STM      0x104A
 #define TPM_VID_ATML     0x1114
+#define TPM_VID_IFX      0x15D1

 enum tpm_chip_flags {
     TPM_CHIP_FLAG_BOOTSTRAPPED        = BIT(0),