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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:24:10 +1100 (EST) From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> To: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com> cc: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] TPM: Long default timeout fix On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Michal Schmidt wrote: > what is the status of this patch from Rajiv? It has been in Fedora > kernels for some time, but I do not see it applied upstream: > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:18:50 -0200 Rajiv Andrade wrote: > > If duration variable value is 0 at this point, it's because > > chip->vendor.duration wasn't filled by tpm_get_timeouts() yet. > > This patch sets then the lowest timeout just to give enough > > time for tpm_get_timeouts() to further succeed. > > > > This fix avoids long boot times in case another entity attempts > > to send commands to the TPM when the TPM isn't accessible. > > > > Signed-off-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Applied to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#for-linus -- James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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