linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] tpm: in tpm2_del_space check if ops pointer is still valid

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:14:31 +0100
From:   Lino Sanfilippo <l.sanfilippo@...bus.com>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
Cc:     peterhuewe@....de, jgg@...pe.ca, stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        p.rosenberger@...bus.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] tpm: in tpm2_del_space check if ops pointer is still
 valid

Hi,

On 26.01.21 16:29, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 17:47 +0100, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
>> Hi Jarkko,
>>
>> On 17.01.21 at 19:13, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>>> I have hard time to believe that any of these patches are based on
>>> actual regressions.
>>>
>>> /Jarko
>>>
>> patch 1 is indeed wrong (I oversaw the action call in case of error),
>> so please ignore it.
>>
>> However patches 2 and 3 are based on bugs I encountered while working with
>> TPM. I am sorry if I did not make the issues clear enough in the patches
>> commit messages. Let me try to explain it in more detail:
>>
>> The bugs showed up after unloading the TPM chip driver module while one
>> process still had the /dev/tpmrm device open.
> Please refine the patch set, and we will look into that then.
>
> Put fixes tags and logs where appropriate. Thanks.
>
> /Jarkko

Ok, will do so.

Regards,
Lino