Re: [PATCH] tpm: Revert "tpm: fix invalid locking in NONBLOCKING mode"

[Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 06:10:02PM -0700, Alex Guzman wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-05-27 at 23:15 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 19:23 +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> > > Thanks, I don't pretend to understand the nuances of this
> > > particular code,
> > > but I was hoping that the request to revert got some attention
> > > since Alex's
> > > kernel Bugzilla and message a few months ago to linux integrity
> > > weren't.
> > 
> > Removing linux-kernel from CC since this subsystem internal
> > discussion.
> > 
> > Seeing the whole thing first time today.
> > 
> > Bugzilla is the first thing to ignore when busy. It is good as place
> > holder for bugs, but all discussions should happen only in LKML.
> > There's
> > no official requirement to proactively use Bugzilla for anything.
> > 
> > That said I'm happy that people put stuff there so that it gets
> > logged.
> > 
> > For follow-up's use only LKML if it is important to you. Those will
> > get
> > processed.
> > 
> > As far as this goes, if nothing is heard from me, check that you put
> > me
> > as CC to the original email. Otherwise, I might have missed it (by
> > mistake,
> > not by purpose).
> > 
> > Honestly, I'm not sure what point was this patch when there was time
> > to
> > wait for months without response. Why the passivity for all this
> > time?
> > 
> > /Jarkko
> > 
> 
> It largely went quiet because I didn't raise the issue in the mailing
> list again. I pinged back in February (
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/CAJ7-PMbujee92N1f9xVF8vtXgS49qpe7qHkeWh1Z0R-Rk-Jkaw@mail.gmail.com/
> ) but the conversation died out and I was content to simply use the
> last working kernel version and see if the bug was resolved on its own.
> I raised the issue again on the bugtracker a few days ago, leading to
> this follow up here. :)

OK  cool and thanks a lot for reporting this!

/Jarkko