linux-kernel - Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: ensure no ongoing commands on shutdown

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:59:19 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andrey Pronin <apronin@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, semenzato@...omium.org,
        tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, groeck@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: ensure no ongoing
 commands on shutdown

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:33:18AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 04:42:30PM -0800, Andrey Pronin wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 05:28:57PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 04:09:54PM -0800, Andrey Pronin wrote:
> > > > Resetting TPM while processing a command may lead to issues
> > > > on the next boot. Ensure that we don't have any ongoing
> > > > commands, and that no further commands can be sent to the chip
> > > > by unregistering the device in the shutdown handler.
> > > > tpm_chip_unregister() waits for the completion of an ongoing
> > > > command, if any, and then clears out chip->ops and unregisters
> > > > sysfs entities.
> > > 
> > > Unregistering in a shutdown handler seems very strange, it also waits
> > > for userspace things, so I wonder if it could be problematic?
> > > 
> > > Maybe just use
> > > 
> > >    down_write(&chip->ops_sem);
> > >    chip->ops = NULL;
> > >    up_write(&chip->ops_sem);
> > > 
> > > In the shutdown handler?
> > 
> > down_write(&chip->ops_sem) would still wait for completing the initiated
> > writes, since tpm_write() in tpm-dev.c calls tpm_try_get_ops().
> > Also, tpm-sysfs.c calls chip->ops directly, so sysfs should be
> > unregistered first.
> 
> Why don't you fix the tpm-sysfs issue but rather misusing
> tpm_chip_unregister?

Ignore this. I wasn't following this thread properly.

Only now had time read carefully through the discussion.

/Jarkko