Re: TPM selftest failure in 4.15 (Dell XPS 13, Nuvoton 6xx)

Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-02-08T13:18:34Z

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 08:16:26PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > The list of "A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest" is caused by
> > my commit 125a2210541079e8e7c69e629ad06cabed788f8c ("tpm: React
> > correctly to
> > RC_TESTING from TPM 2.0 self tests") [1]. 2314 is TPM_RC_TESTING, so the TPM
> > tells us that self-tests are still running in the background. This problem was
> > not visible in previous versions, since it (incorrectly) ignored > TPM_RC_TESTING.
>
> Maybe the commit should be reverted for now until this has cleared up for
> the Dell XPS 13 9360(?) to adhere to Linux' no regression policy.

I think this should be done as an immediate action with Cc to stable.

/Jarkko