linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] suspend to ram fails in 6.2-rc1 due to tpm errors

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Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:00:14 +0300
From:   "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@...nel.org>
To:     "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     "Thorsten Leemhuis" <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
        "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        "Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Peter Huewe" <peterhuewe@....de>,
        "Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@...pe.ca>, "Jan Dabros" <jsd@...ihalf.com>,
        <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        "LKML" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Dominik Brodowski" <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        "Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Johannes Altmanninger" <aclopte@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] suspend to ram fails in 6.2-rc1 due to tpm errors

On Wed Apr 26, 2023 at 7:07 PM EEST, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed Apr 26, 2023 at 4:32 AM EEST, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Nice work! Happy that you got it figured out. That trace seems
> > consistent with what I was seeing in my traces, so I think you've
> > spotted the right bug.
> >
> > Jason
>
> Unfortunately there might be two bugs. Unless I interpreted logs
> incorrectly also hwrng can race with resume (sorry, I forgot to
> save it).
>
> Looking at drivers/char/hw_random/core.c there seems to be no
> binding to the PM so I guess that this it supports what I'm
> observing [*].
>
> So there's two ways to fix the issue:
>
> 1. Unregister hwrng for the course of suspend
> 2. Add something like TPM_CHIP_SUSPENDED, which is set by suspend and
>    cleared by the resume.
>
> I try the 2nd option first because I see it less complicated.
> Probably would make sense to turn chip flags as atomic while
> at it.
>
> [*] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c

OK, so I implemented fix also for hwrng and now I get a clean
resume. I'll add all necessary tags etc. and send for review.

BR, Jarkko