[PATCH v8 08/17] tpm: call tpm2_flush_space() on error in tpm_try_transmit()

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com
Fri Nov 16 12:38:32 UTC 2018


Always call tpm2_flush_space() on failure in tpm_try_transmit() so that
the volatile memory of the TPM gets cleared. If /dev/tpm0 does not have
sufficient permissions (usually it has), this could lead to the leakage
of TPM objects. Through /dev/tpmrm0 this issue does not raise any new
security concerns.

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 745b361e989a ("tpm:tpm: infrastructure for TPM spaces")
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb at linux.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 29 ++++++++++++-----------------
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h           |  1 +
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c    |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
index 11af50646ed1..ef00b698ec02 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
@@ -224,14 +224,14 @@ static ssize_t tpm_try_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip,
 
 	rc = tpm2_prepare_space(chip, space, ordinal, buf);
 	if (rc)
-		goto out;
+		goto out_idle;
 
 	rc = chip->ops->send(chip, buf, count);
 	if (rc < 0) {
 		if (rc != -EPIPE)
 			dev_err(&chip->dev,
 				"%s: tpm_send: error %d\n", __func__, rc);
-		goto out;
+		goto out_space;
 	}
 
 	if (chip->flags & TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ)
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ static ssize_t tpm_try_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip,
 		if (chip->ops->req_canceled(chip, status)) {
 			dev_err(&chip->dev, "Operation Canceled\n");
 			rc = -ECANCELED;
-			goto out;
+			goto out_space;
 		}
 
 		tpm_msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT_POLL);
@@ -257,28 +257,23 @@ static ssize_t tpm_try_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip,
 	chip->ops->cancel(chip);
 	dev_err(&chip->dev, "Operation Timed out\n");
 	rc = -ETIME;
-	goto out;
+	goto out_space;
 
 out_recv:
 	len = chip->ops->recv(chip, buf, bufsiz);
 	if (len < 0) {
 		rc = len;
-		dev_err(&chip->dev,
-			"tpm_transmit: tpm_recv: error %d\n", rc);
-		goto out;
-	} else if (len < TPM_HEADER_SIZE) {
+		dev_err(&chip->dev, "tpm_transmit: tpm_recv: error %d\n", rc);
+	} else if (len < TPM_HEADER_SIZE || len != be32_to_cpu(header->length))
 		rc = -EFAULT;
-		goto out;
-	}
 
-	if (len != be32_to_cpu(header->length)) {
-		rc = -EFAULT;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-	rc = tpm2_commit_space(chip, space, ordinal, buf, &len);
+out_space:
+	if (rc)
+		tpm2_flush_space(chip);
+	else
+		rc = tpm2_commit_space(chip, space, ordinal, buf, &len);
 
-out:
+out_idle:
 	/* may fail but do not override previous error value in rc */
 	tpm_go_idle(chip, flags);
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
index 86fa8ac0ae20..92638ec6ec97 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
@@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ int tpm2_probe(struct tpm_chip *chip);
 int tpm2_find_cc(struct tpm_chip *chip, u32 cc);
 int tpm2_init_space(struct tpm_space *space);
 void tpm2_del_space(struct tpm_chip *chip, struct tpm_space *space);
+void tpm2_flush_space(struct tpm_chip *chip);
 int tpm2_prepare_space(struct tpm_chip *chip, struct tpm_space *space, u32 cc,
 		       u8 *cmd);
 int tpm2_commit_space(struct tpm_chip *chip, struct tpm_space *space,
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c
index 862ee1ce1755..393d9aadadce 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static int tpm2_save_context(struct tpm_chip *chip, u32 handle, u8 *buf,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void tpm2_flush_space(struct tpm_chip *chip)
+void tpm2_flush_space(struct tpm_chip *chip)
 {
 	struct tpm_space *space = &chip->work_space;
 	int i;
-- 
2.19.1



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