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Date:   Tue, 26 May 2020 15:34:56 -0700
From:   Alex Guzman <alex@...man.io>
To:     Tadeusz Struk <tstruk@...il.com>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@...l.com>,
        Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jeffrin Jose T <jeffrin@...agiritech.edu.in>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: Revert "tpm: fix invalid locking in NONBLOCKING
 mode"

On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 14:33 -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> On 5/26/20 1:00 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > I don't think there is a root cause other than a TIS TPM is getting
> > annoyed by us cycling localities too rapidly because we don't do an
> > actual TPM operation between request and relinquish.  Since the
> > first
> > request/relinquish seems unnecessary for the async case, moving the
> > ops
> > get eliminates the problem.
> 
> Could be, so maybe we could try both patches.
> More debug info on the error path won't hurt.
> Thanks,
> Tadeusz

With your logging patch, I consistently see this message in dmesg when
tpm2_getcap fails:

tpm tpm0: request_locality: failed to request locality 0 after 750 ms

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