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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, safford@watson.ibm.com,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TPM: integrity fix
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:26:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090205152624.GA27410@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233846390-21146-1-git-send-email-srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Quoting Rajiv Andrade (srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> Fix to function which is called by IMA, now tpm_chip_find_get() considers the case in which the machine doesn't have a TPM or, if it has, its TPM isn't enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Is this to fix James' problem with IMA on bootup?

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

> ---
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c |    8 +++++---
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
> index 0387965..912a473 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
> @@ -666,18 +666,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tpm_show_temp_deactivated);
>   */
>  static struct tpm_chip *tpm_chip_find_get(int chip_num)
>  {
> -	struct tpm_chip *pos;
> +	struct tpm_chip *pos, *chip = NULL;
> 
>  	rcu_read_lock();
>  	list_for_each_entry_rcu(pos, &tpm_chip_list, list) {

Crap I even paused for a second when I reviewed the original
patch.  I think the conversation in my head went something like
"but will pos be NULL at the end of the loop?"  "Oh, it must".  gah.

>  		if (chip_num != TPM_ANY_NUM && chip_num != pos->dev_num)
>  			continue;
> 
> -		if (try_module_get(pos->dev->driver->owner))
> +		if (try_module_get(pos->dev->driver->owner)) {
> +			chip = pos;
>  			break;
> +		}
>  	}
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
> -	return pos;
> +	return chip;
>  }
> 
>  #define TPM_ORDINAL_PCRREAD cpu_to_be32(21)
> -- 
> 1.5.6.3

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-05 15:06 [PATCH] TPM: integrity fix Rajiv Andrade
2009-02-05 15:26 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2009-02-05 16:05   ` Rajiv Andrade
2009-02-05 22:37 ` James Morris

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