Re: [PATCH v9 13/19] tpm: Protect against locality counter underflow

Daniel P. Smith
2024-08-15T18:53:44Z

On 6/4/24 16:12, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Fri May 31, 2024 at 4:03 AM EEST, Ross Philipson wrote:
>> From: "Daniel P. Smith" <dpsmith@apertussolutions.com>
>>
>> Commit 933bfc5ad213 introduced the use of a locality counter to control when a
>> locality request is allowed to be sent to the TPM. In the commit, the counter
>> is indiscriminately decremented. Thus creating a situation for an integer
>> underflow of the counter.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Smith <dpsmith@apertussolutions.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
>> Reported-by: Kanth Ghatraju <kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com>
>> Fixes: 933bfc5ad213 ("tpm, tpm: Implement usage counter for locality")
>
> Not sure if we have practical use for fixes tag here but open for
> argument ofc. I.e. I'm not sure what is the practical scenario to
> worry about if Trenchboot did not exist.

We can drop the fixes line.

>> ---
>> drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
>> index 176cd8dbf1db..7c1761bd6000 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
>> @@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ static int tpm_tis_relinquish_locality(struct tpm_chip *chip, int l)
>> struct tpm_tis_data *priv = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
>>
>> mutex_lock(&priv->locality_count_mutex);
>> - priv->locality_count--;
>> + if (priv->locality_count > 0)
>> + priv->locality_count--;
>
> I'd signal the situation with pr_info() in else branch.

Ack.

>> if (priv->locality_count == 0)
>> __tpm_tis_relinquish_locality(priv, l);
>> mutex_unlock(&priv->locality_count_mutex);
>
> BR, Jarkko