[PATCH v3 2/2] tpm: ibmvtpm: Avoid error message when process gets signal while waiting

Stefan Berger stefanb at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 5 21:52:56 UTC 2021


From: Stefan Berger <stefanb at linux.ibm.com>

When rngd is run as root then lots of these types of message will appear
in the kernel log if the TPM has been configured to provide random bytes:

[ 7406.275163] tpm tpm0: tpm_transmit: tpm_recv: error -4

The issue is caused by the following call that is interrupted while
waiting for the TPM's response.

sig = wait_event_interruptible(ibmvtpm->wq,
                        (ibmvtpm->tpm_status & TPM_STATUS_BUSY) == 0);

Rather than waiting for the response in the low level driver, have it use
the polling loop in tpm_try_transmit() that uses a command's duration to
poll until a result has been returned by the TPM, thus ending when the
timeout has occurred but not responding to signals and ctrl-c anymore. To
stay in this polling loop extend tpm_ibmvtpm_status() to return
TPM_STATUS_BUSY for as long as the vTPM is busy. Since the loop requires
the TPM's timeouts, get them now using tpm_get_timeouts() after setting
the TPM2 version flag on the chip.

To recreat the resolved issue start rngd like this:

sudo rngd -r /dev/hwrng -t
sudo rngd -r /dev/tpm0 -t

Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1981473
Fixes: 6674ff145eef ("tpm_ibmvtpm: properly handle interrupted packet receptions")
Cc: Nayna Jain <nayna at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: George Wilson <gcwilson at linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry at linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb at linux.ibm.com>

---
v3L
 - split for renaming of tpm_processing_cmd

v2:
 - reworded commit text
---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
index cd6457061a2e..5d795866b483 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
@@ -106,18 +106,12 @@ static int tpm_ibmvtpm_recv(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 *buf, size_t count)
 {
 	struct ibmvtpm_dev *ibmvtpm = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
 	u16 len;
-	int sig;
 
 	if (!ibmvtpm->rtce_buf) {
 		dev_err(ibmvtpm->dev, "ibmvtpm device is not ready\n");
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	sig = wait_event_interruptible(ibmvtpm->wq,
-				(ibmvtpm->tpm_status & TPM_STATUS_BUSY) == 0);
-	if (sig)
-		return -EINTR;
-
 	len = ibmvtpm->res_len;
 
 	if (count < len) {
@@ -271,7 +265,9 @@ static void tpm_ibmvtpm_cancel(struct tpm_chip *chip)
 
 static u8 tpm_ibmvtpm_status(struct tpm_chip *chip)
 {
-	return 0;
+	struct ibmvtpm_dev *ibmvtpm = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
+
+	return ibmvtpm->tpm_status;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -459,7 +455,7 @@ static const struct tpm_class_ops tpm_ibmvtpm = {
 	.send = tpm_ibmvtpm_send,
 	.cancel = tpm_ibmvtpm_cancel,
 	.status = tpm_ibmvtpm_status,
-	.req_complete_mask = 0,
+	.req_complete_mask = TPM_STATUS_BUSY,
 	.req_complete_val = 0,
 	.req_canceled = tpm_ibmvtpm_req_canceled,
 };
@@ -690,8 +686,15 @@ static int tpm_ibmvtpm_probe(struct vio_dev *vio_dev,
 		goto init_irq_cleanup;
 	}
 
-	if (!strcmp(id->compat, "IBM,vtpm20")) {
+
+	if (!strcmp(id->compat, "IBM,vtpm20"))
 		chip->flags |= TPM_CHIP_FLAG_TPM2;
+
+	rc = tpm_get_timeouts(chip);
+	if (rc)
+		goto init_irq_cleanup;
+
+	if (chip->flags & TPM_CHIP_FLAG_TPM2) {
 		rc = tpm2_get_cc_attrs_tbl(chip);
 		if (rc)
 			goto init_irq_cleanup;
-- 
2.31.1



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