[PATCH] tpm: consolidate the TPM startup code

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com
Tue Jun 20 20:55:29 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 01:31:52PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 08:13:34PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Consolidated all the "manual" TPM startup code to a single function
> > in order to make code flows a bit cleaner and migrate to tpm_buf.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com>
> >  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> >  drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h           |  6 +---
> >  drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c      | 32 +------------------
> >  3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
> 
> Makes sense to me
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> > index d2b4df6d9894..fbef47d8bd06 100644
> > +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
> > @@ -540,6 +540,47 @@ ssize_t tpm_transmit_cmd(struct tpm_chip *chip, struct tpm_space *space,
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tpm_transmit_cmd);
> >  
> > +#define TPM_ORD_STARTUP 153
> > +#define TPM_ST_CLEAR 1
> 
> We should really have a tpm1.h and tpm2.h that has all these various
> constants and things instead of open coding them randomly all over..
> 
> Jason

I agree.

Is this patch acceptable to be applied?

Stefan, can you peer test this with a TPM emulator? For convenient testing
I created 'readpubek' branch that includes also my readpubek bug fixes.
Seeing that the module loads and you can output pubek sysfs attribute is
sufficient for seeing that all the three patches work.

/Jarkko
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