Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: fix multiple race conditions in tpm_ppi.c

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:42:51PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:

> > Personally, I'd sequence this commit right after your 'tpm: two-phase
> > chip management functions' commit because it makes it much saner (no
> > half step toward the new functions). I assume this is a theoretical
> > problem? Or do you have a two TPM system?
> 
> This has realized in Intel NUCs where there is PTT and dTPM module. Even
> when PTT is selected there is still ACPI device for dTPM so three is a
> race condition and PPI is unusable. I think that it's not good that code is
> not robust enough to deal with this.

Oh OK, you should probably explain in the commit log that this is a
bug fix that impacts real hardware, that qualifies it for the -stable
tree.

Assuming two-phase commit is nearly ready to go, I'd still sequence
this fix after two-phase for mainline and then use this patch as-is
for the 3.17 -stable backport of the mainline commit.

> Even if you forget the race condition it feels waste to lookup a handle
> that is already known.

There is no doubt that this new arrangement is much better than what
was there before!

Thanks,
Jason