[PATCH v11 00/16] Remove nested TPM operations

Stefan Berger stefanb at linux.ibm.com
Fri Feb 8 12:05:26 UTC 2019


On 2/8/19 6:14 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 08:51:15PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
>>>> +    rc = 0;
>>>>        if (chip->flags & TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ)
>>>>            goto out_recv;
>>> What why?
>>
>> This fix seems to only be necessary when bisecting. You may want to apply
>> it!
> I don't want to apply it because I don't understand why it would
> be needed. Can you give a short explanation?


See my comment on [PATCH v11 08/16]. It needs to be added in that patch 
since otherwise rc holds a non-zero value on function exit, which is 
wrong at that point.


>
> /Jarkko
>



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