linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] tpmdd updates for Linux v5.4

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Date:   Fri, 29 Nov 2019 23:04:00 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tpmdd updates for Linux v5.4

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 09:18:36AM -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> On Wed Nov 20 19, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 7:34 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
> > <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > A new driver for fTPM living inside ARM TEE was added this round. In
> > > addition to that, there is three bug fixes and one clean up.
> > > 
> > > /Jarkko
> > > 
> > > The following changes since commit 8fb8e9e46261e0117cb3cffb6dd8bb7e08f8649b:
> > > 
> > >   Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma (2019-08-30 09:23:45 -0700)
> > > 
> > > are available in the Git repository at:
> > > 
> > >   git://git.infradead.org/users/jjs/linux-tpmdd.git tags/tpmdd-next-20190902
> > > 
> > > for you to fetch changes up to e8bd417aab0c72bfb54465596b16085702ba0405:
> > > 
> > >   tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee: Document fTPM TEE driver (2019-09-02 17:08:35 +0300)
> > > 
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > tpmdd updates for Linux v5.4
> > > 
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Jarkko Sakkinen (1):
> > >       tpm: Remove a deprecated comments about implicit sysfs locking
> > > 
> > > Lukas Bulwahn (1):
> > >       MAINTAINERS: fix style in KEYS-TRUSTED entry
> > > 
> > > Sasha Levin (2):
> > >       tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee: A driver for firmware TPM running inside TEE
> > >       tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee: Document fTPM TEE driver
> > > 
> > > Stefan Berger (2):
> > >       tpm_tis_core: Turn on the TPM before probing IRQ's
> > >       tpm_tis_core: Set TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ before probing for interrupts
> > 
> > Hi Jarrko,
> > 
> > I'm replying here because I can't find the patches to reply to
> > directly from LKML.
> > 
> > Commit 7f064c378e2c "tpm_tis_core: Turn on the TPM before probing
> > IRQ's" in the v5.3-stable tree caused a regression on a pre-release
> > platform with a TPM2 device. The interrupt starts screaming when the
> > driver is loaded and does not stop until the device is force unbond
> > from the driver by:
> > 
> >     echo IFX0740:00 > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/tpm_tis/unbind
> > 
> > I checked v5.4-rc8 and it has the same problem. I tried reverting:
> > 
> > 1ea32c83c699 tpm_tis_core: Set TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ before probing for interrupts
> > 5b359c7c4372 tpm_tis_core: Turn on the TPM before probing IRQ's
> > 
> > Which silenced the screaming interrupt problem, but now the TPM is reporting:
> > 
> > [    3.725131] tpm_tis IFX0740:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0x1B, rev-id 16)
> > [    3.725358] tpm tpm0: tpm_try_transmit: send(): error -5
> > [    3.725359] tpm tpm0: [Firmware Bug]: TPM interrupt not working,
> > polling instead
> > 
> > ...at load, where it was not reporting this previously. Can you take a look?
> > 
> 
> We've had an issue reported for a Lenovo t490s getting an interrupt storm
> with the Fedora 5.3 stable kernel, so it appears to be impacting a number of
> systems.

Hi sorry for inactivity. I've had a renovation going on where I live
which has caused some crackling in the comms but I'm catching up during
the weekend.

Which CPU model does T490S have? Can you paste /proc/cpuinfo?

/Jarkko