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Message-ID: <1495749185.29207.21.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 14:53:05 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com, tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Suppresse error logging when in
 closed state

On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 17:39 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> Suppress the error logging when the core TPM driver sends commands
> to the VTPM proxy driver and -EPIPE is returned in case the VTPM
> proxy driver is 'closed' (closed anonymous file descriptor).  This
> error code is only returned by the send function and by tpm_transmit
> when the VTPM proxy driver is being used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 4 ++--
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c      | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> index d711186..4826fcf 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> @@ -429,11 +429,11 @@ ssize_t tpm_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip, struct tpm_space *space,
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	rc = chip->ops->send(chip, (u8 *) buf, count);
> -	if (rc < 0) {
> +	if (rc < 0 && rc != -EPIPE)
>  		dev_err(&chip->dev,
>  			"tpm_transmit: tpm_send: error %d\n", rc);
> +	if (rc < 0)
>  		goto out;

Perhaps this would read better as

	if (rc < 0) {
		if (rc != -EPIPE)
			dev_err(etc...);
		goto out;
	}

though for etc, perhaps
			dev_err(&chip->dev, "%s: %tpm_send: error %d\n",
				__func__, rc);

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