Re: [Regression 4.15-rc2] New messages `tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest`

[Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Hi Paul,

On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 13:54 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Jason,
> 
> 
> On 12/08/17 17:18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > 
> >> I have no access to the system right now, but want to point out, that the
> >> log was created by `journactl -k`, so I do not know if that messes with the
> >> time stamps. I checked the output of `dmesg` but didn't see the TPM error
> >> messages in the output - only `tpm_tis MSFT0101:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0xFE,
> >> rev-id 4)`. Do I need to pass a different error message to `dmesg`?
> > 
> > It is a good question, I don't know.. If your kernel isn't setup to
> > timestamp messages then the journalstamp will certainly be garbage.
> > 
> > No idea why you wouldn't see the messages in dmesg, if they are not in
> > dmesg they couldn't get into the journal
> 
> It looks like I was running an older Linux kernel version, when running 
> `dmesg`. Sorry for the noise. Here are the messages with the Linux 
> kernel time stamps, showing that the delays work correctly.
> 
> ```
> $ uname -a
> Linux Ixpees 4.15.0-041500rc2-generic #201712031230 SMP Sun Dec 3 
> 17:32:03 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> $ sudo dmesg | grep TPM
> [    0.000000] ACPI: TPM2 0x000000006F332168 000034 (v03        Tpm2Tabl 
> 00000001 AMI  00000000)
> [    1.114355] tpm_tis MSFT0101:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0xFE, rev-id 4)
> [    1.125250] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
> [    1.156645] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
> [    1.208053] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
> [    1.299640] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
> [    1.471223] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
> [    1.802819] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
> [    2.454320] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
> [    3.734808] tpm tpm0: TPM self test failed
> [    3.759675] ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass! (rc=-19)
> ```

I've sort of been following this thread, but just want to make sure
that once the self test is/was fixed, that you aren't seeing the IMA
message.

Assuming this is fixed, could someone provide the commit that fixes
it?

thanks,

Mimi