linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tpm_tis: Add missing start/stop_tpm

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:46:48 -0800
From:   James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:     Łukasz Majczak <lma@...ihalf.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        "Tj (Elloe Linux)" <ml.linux@...oe.vision>,
        Dirk Gouders <dirk@...ders.net>
Cc:     Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Radoslaw Biernacki <rad@...ihalf.com>,
        Marcin Wojtas <mw@...ihalf.com>,
        Alex Levin <levinale@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm_tis: Add missing start/stop_tpm_chip calls

On Tue, 2021-01-26 at 16:46 +0100, Łukasz Majczak wrote:
> Hi Jarkko, Guenter
> 
> Yes, here are the logs when failure occurs -
> https://gist.github.com/semihalf-majczak-lukasz/1575461f585f1e7fb1e9366b8eceaab9
> Look for a phrase "TPM returned invalid status"

We've had other reports of this:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/ghsgagsnag.fsf@gouders.net/
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/374e918c-f167-9308-2bea-ae6bc6a3d2e3@elloe.vision/

The problem is some TIS TPMs don't begin in the correct locality so we
have to set it.  When I proposed the check, I also proposed a fix for
this problem:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20201001180925.13808-5-James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com/

But it's part of a series that never went upstream.  Part of the reason
was Jarkko proposed the get/put patch to fix this instead, but that
never went upstream either.  We need to decide an approach and apply
one or other fixes.

James