linux-kernel - Re: Getting weird TPM error after rebasing my tree to security/next-general

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Date:   Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:52:23 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     tomas.winkler@...el.com, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Getting weird TPM error after rebasing my tree to security/next-general

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 10:51 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> In fact, we have another patch (that isn't applied) that makes even
> the memcpy_erms() just call the sw version of memcpy() for short
> copies (because "rep movsb" is slow for those cases). That would also
> have broken your driver.

I think what I should do is to just make "memcpy_*io()" do the "align
naturally" thing.

Let me cook up a patch for you to test.

              Linus