Patch "tpm: fix the rollback in tpm_chip_register()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tpm: fix the rollback in tpm_chip_register()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tpm-fix-the-rollback-in-tpm_chip_register.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 72c91ce8523ae5828fe5e4417ae0aaab53707a08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:47:22 -0800
Subject: tpm: fix the rollback in tpm_chip_register()

From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>

commit 72c91ce8523ae5828fe5e4417ae0aaab53707a08 upstream.

Fixed the rollback and gave more self-documenting names for the
functions.

Fixes: d972b0523f ("tpm: fix call order in tpm-chip.c")
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ struct tpm_chip *tpmm_chip_alloc(struct
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tpmm_chip_alloc);
 
-static int tpm_dev_add_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
+static int tpm_add_char_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
 {
 	int rc;
 
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ static int tpm_dev_add_device(struct tpm
 			chip->devname, MAJOR(chip->dev.devt),
 			MINOR(chip->dev.devt), rc);
 
-		device_unregister(&chip->dev);
 		return rc;
 	}
 
@@ -162,13 +161,14 @@ static int tpm_dev_add_device(struct tpm
 			chip->devname, MAJOR(chip->dev.devt),
 			MINOR(chip->dev.devt), rc);
 
+		cdev_del(&chip->cdev);
 		return rc;
 	}
 
 	return rc;
 }
 
-static void tpm_dev_del_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
+static void tpm_del_char_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
 {
 	cdev_del(&chip->cdev);
 	device_unregister(&chip->dev);
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ int tpm_chip_register(struct tpm_chip *c
 
 	tpm_add_ppi(chip);
 
-	rc = tpm_dev_add_device(chip);
+	rc = tpm_add_char_device(chip);
 	if (rc)
 		goto out_err;
 
@@ -274,6 +274,6 @@ void tpm_chip_unregister(struct tpm_chip
 		sysfs_remove_link(&chip->pdev->kobj, "ppi");
 
 	tpm1_chip_unregister(chip);
-	tpm_dev_del_device(chip);
+	tpm_del_char_device(chip);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tpm_chip_unregister);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.4/tpm_crb-tpm2_shutdown-must-be-called-before-tpm_chip_unregister.patch
queue-4.4/tpm-fix-the-cleanup-of-struct-tpm_chip.patch
queue-4.4/tpm-fix-the-rollback-in-tpm_chip_register.patch
queue-4.4/tpm_eventlog.c-fix-binary_bios_measurements.patch