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Message-Id: <CV3J3TCMB74C.1WA96NQ9J593U@suppilovahvero>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:12:17 +0300
From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@...nel.org>
To: "Mario Limonciello" <mario.limonciello@....com>,
"Paul Menzel" <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Cc: <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>,
"Jerry Snitselaar" <jsnitsel@...hat.com>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
"Todd Brandt" <todd.e.brandt@...el.com>,
"Peter Huewe" <peterhuewe@....de>,
"Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@...pe.ca>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@....im>, "Ronan Pigott" <ronan@....ie>,
"Raymond Jay Golo" <rjgolo@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tpm: Enable hwrng only for Pluton on AMD CPUs
On Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 9:58 PM EEST, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On 8/23/2023 12:40, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 11:23 AM EEST, Paul Menzel wrote:
> >> Dear Jarkko,
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you for your patch.
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 23.08.23 um 01:15 schrieb Jarkko Sakkinen:
> >>> The vendor check introduced by commit 554b841d4703 ("tpm: Disable RNG for
> >>> all AMD fTPMs") doesn't work properly on a number of Intel fTPMs. On the
> >>> reported systems the TPM doesn't reply at bootup and returns back the
> >>> command code. This makes the TPM fail probe.
> >>>
> >>> Since only Microsoft Pluton is the only known combination of AMD CPU and
> >>> fTPM from other vendor, disable hwrng otherwise. In order to make sysadmin
> >>> aware of this, print also info message to the klog.
> >>>
> >>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> >>> Fixes: 554b841d4703 ("tpm: Disable RNG for all AMD fTPMs")
> >>> Reported-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@...el.com>
> >>> Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217804
> >>> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
> >>
> >> Mario’s patch also had the three reporters below listed:
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@....im>
> >> Reported-by: Ronan Pigott <ronan@....ie>
> >> Reported-by: Raymond Jay Golo <rjgolo@...il.com>
> >
> > The problem here is that checkpatch throws three warnings:
> >
> > WARNING: Reported-by: should be immediately followed by Closes: with a URL to the report
> > #19:
> > Reported-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@....im>
> > Reported-by: Ronan Pigott <ronan@....ie>
> >
> > WARNING: Reported-by: should be immediately followed by Closes: with a URL to the report
> > #20:
> > Reported-by: Ronan Pigott <ronan@....ie>
> > Reported-by: Raymond Jay Golo <rjgolo@...il.com>
> >
> > WARNING: Reported-by: should be immediately followed by Closes: with a URL to the report
> > #21:
> > Reported-by: Raymond Jay Golo <rjgolo@...il.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
> >
>
> FWIW I observed the same checkpatch warning when I submitted my version
> of the patch. I figured it's better to ignore the warning and attribute
> everyone who reported the issue affected them.
OK so:
1. checkpatch.pl is part of the kernel process.
2. Bugzilla is not part of the kernel process.
Why emphasis on 1?
BR, Jarkko
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