Re: WARN_ONCE triggered: tpm_tis: Add a check for invalid status

[Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>]

James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 19:57 +0200, Dirk Gouders wrote:
>> On my laptop the check introduced with 55707d531af62b (tpm_tis: Add a
>> check for invalid status) triggered the warning (output below).
>> 
>> So, my laptop seems to be a candidate for testing.
>
> I'm afraid this is a known problem on a wide range of TIS TPMs ... it's
> fixed by the patch set I'm trying to get upstream:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20201001180925.13808-1-James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com/
>
> But in the meantime, it's harmless.  The TIS code at the point in the
> trace is trying to send a TPM2_GetCapability() command which fails
> because the locality isn't listening, but the design of that command is
> only to trigger an interrupt to probe the interrupt handling nothing
> else depends on it succeeding.

Thank you for the explanation and sorry for the noise.  It seems I
misunderstood the commit message.  I will watch the ongoing discussion
you pointed me to.

Dirk