linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] TPM: Long default timeout fix

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1101241123290.30744@tundra.namei.org>
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

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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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