linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix race condition in tpm_common

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Date:   Wed, 30 May 2018 14:01:45 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix race condition in tpm_common_write()

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 01:41:15PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:57:07AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> > On 05/23/2018 06:23 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > Ouch o_O Do you have a fixes tag for this one?
> > > 
> > 
> > This one is quite tricky.
> > The original bug was introduced by abce9ac292e13 (tpm: Propagate error from tpm_transmit to fix a timeout hang)
> > and the code back then was in drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c file
> 
> No, it has been wrong since before git history started, so just use
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> 
> All the other commits you listed are just moving the bad code around
> to new files.
> 
> Jason

OK, thank you Jason. I'll use that.

/Jarkko