linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] tpm: do not ignore memblock

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Message-ID: <c23b8ec6-117f-4843-af37-507961520482@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:47:29 +0100
From: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@...il.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>,
 Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 leitao@...ian.org, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com,
 ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] tpm: do not ignore memblock_reserve return value



On 16/09/2024 09:29, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> (cc Dave)
> 
> On Sat, 14 Sept 2024 at 15:26, Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net> wrote:
>>
>> tpm code currently ignores a relevant failure case silently.
>> Add an error to make this failure non-silent.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
>> ---
>>  drivers/firmware/efi/tpm.c | 7 ++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/tpm.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/tpm.c
>> index 9c3613e6af15..b0cc2cc11d7e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/tpm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/tpm.c
>> @@ -61,7 +61,12 @@ int __init efi_tpm_eventlog_init(void)
>>         }
>>
>>         tbl_size = sizeof(*log_tbl) + log_tbl->size;
>> -       memblock_reserve(efi.tpm_log, tbl_size);
>> +       if (memblock_reserve(efi.tpm_log, tbl_size)) {
>> +               pr_err("TPM Event Log memblock reserve fails (0x%lx, 0x%x)\n",
>> +                      efi.tpm_log, tbl_size);
>> +               ret = -ENOMEM;
>> +               goto out;
>> +       }
>>
> 
> Given the discussion in the other thread, I wonder if this should be
> efi_mem_reserve() instead - might as well fix that too.
> 
> Dave?

I dont believe efi_mem_reserve is needed after your patch in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240912155159.1951792-2-ardb+git@google.com/

which will cover both kexec_load and kexec_file_load cases.

Thanks,
Usama