Re: [PATCH v2] tpm: Move Linux RNG connection to hwrng

Jason Gunthorpe
2017-11-09T16:29:49Z

On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 09:49:33PM +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> On 7 November 2017 at 21:34, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:50:44AM +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
> >
> >> I am assuming you are talking about the following patches - using
> >> struct tpm_chip instead of chip number and this patch.
> >
> > yes
> >
> >> I won't be able to test if struct tpm_chip usage as I don't have
> >> multiple tpm hw in one machine. In case of tpm rng changes I can test
> >> only the lifecycle of tpm rng device. Is that enough? I feel my test
> >> will be limited. Please provide your thoughts on this.
> >
> > That is certainly better than no testing.
>
> The struct tpm_chip patch partially applied on linux next. I had to
> manually change the code. In qemu tpm rng device did not show up on
> loading tpm module. My laptop has tpm hw but Linux next did not work
> properly in that. All my console were getting spammed with some USB
> log message and I could not do anything. X did not start either. I
> could not debug the issue as the logs were printing infinitely. Will
> get little more time this weekend. Will do a proper test and provide
> you the result.

Test against 4.15-rc, here are the two patches

https://github.com/jgunthorpe/linux/tree/tpm

Pull from here and merge the latest rc and you will probably have a
bootable system.

Jason