From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y] tpm: tpm2_probe: propagate transport errors
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 21:12:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261111021248.593244-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261107052530-failed-6.12-7d4f1cbfe063@kernel.org>
From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
[ Upstream commit 7d4f1cbfe063af5581dac66abe9e9c965e1031cc ]
tpm2_probe() reads the protocol version from the response tag and is
documented to return -errno on failure, but it always returns 0. A
transport error (tpm_transmit_cmd() < 0) is thus swallowed together with
the intentionally ignored TPM response code, leaving TPM_CHIP_FLAG_TPM2
unset. A transient bus failure on the first command then misdetects a
TPM 2.0 as a 1.2 and the probe fails on the TPM 1.2 path:
tpm_tis_i2c 0-002e: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0x1C, rev-id 22)
tpm tpm0: A TPM error (-62) occurred attempting to determine the timeouts
Return the transport error instead; rc >= 0 still means a valid header was
received and the TPM's own response code is still ignored.
Fixes: 94e266ba1fa3 ("tpm: migrate tpm2_probe() to use struct tpm_buf")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261001060114.1582092-1-alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
[ sashal: Replaced the early return with rc = 0 to preserve the existing tpm_buf_destroy() cleanup. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
index 63d26aebf55db..2e4652d43bca7 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
@@ -551,9 +551,10 @@ int tpm2_probe(struct tpm_chip *chip)
out = (struct tpm_header *)buf.data;
if (be16_to_cpu(out->tag) == TPM2_ST_NO_SESSIONS)
chip->flags |= TPM_CHIP_FLAG_TPM2;
+ rc = 0;
}
tpm_buf_destroy(&buf);
- return 0;
+ return rc;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tpm2_probe);
--
2.53.0
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