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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>,
	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] tpm_tis: Fix check_locality for correct locality acquisition
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 23:32:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201005203215.GA45618@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14edea1f5092c2b8442165756b2ee32e56bed1eb.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 12:00:57PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-10-05 at 18:34 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:09:21AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > The TPM TIS specification says the TPM signals the acquisition of
> > > locality when the TMP_ACCESS_REQUEST_USE bit goes to one *and* the
> > > TPM_ACCESS_REQUEST_USE bit goes to zero.  Currently we only check
> > > the
> > 
> > Put a reference to the section.
> > 
> > I'm *guessing* that the spec is
> > 
> > https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-work-group-pc-client-specific-tpm-interface-specification-tis
> > 
> > Please have this and also location in this spec.
> 
> I can, but the TCG reorganizes its website every few months, so no URLs
> like that are permanent.

OK, that's good enough excuse :-( Let's then ignore this comment.
Just would had save trouble in future if that wasn't the case.

> > > former not the latter, so check both.  Adding the check on
> > > TPM_ACCESS_REQUEST_USE should fix the case where the locality is
> > > re-requested before the TPM has released it.  In this case the
> > > locality may get released briefly before it is reacquired, which
> > > causes all sorts of problems. However, with the added check,
> > > TPM_ACCESS_REQUEST_USE should remain 1 until the second request for
> > > the locality is granted.
> > 
> > The description is really good and understandable otherwise.
> > 
> > For me it is not obvious at all, why this is missing a fixes
> > tag?
> 
> It's been there ever since the initial commit:
> 
> commit 27084efee0c3dc0eb15b5ed750aa9f1adb3983c3
> Author: Leendert van Doorn <leendert@watson.ibm.com>
> Date:   Sat Apr 22 02:38:03 2006 -0700
> 
>     [PATCH] tpm: driver for next generation TPM chips

Then just "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org" should do.

> > > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <
> > > James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > v2: added this patch
> > 
> > Use the cover letter for the changelog. I'm afraid that I might
> > miss these otherwise.
> 
> Submitting patches actually recommends doing this ... I think we want
> to keep to standard kernel process, but I can gather them in the cover
> letter as well.

Most of the patch sets that I encounter have the cover letter in the
changelog and usually it is great for getting overall image what is
happening.

In section 14 of "submitting patches" there is a remark that the area
just after the diffstat marker is a good place to store this kind of
information. I have not find any explicit instruction for patch sets,
i.e. I just trust the "majority vote".

> James

/Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-05 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01 18:09 [PATCH v2 0/5] tpm_tis: fix interrupts (again) James Bottomley
2020-10-01 18:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] tpm_tis: Fix check_locality for correct locality acquisition James Bottomley
2020-10-05 15:34   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-05 19:00     ` James Bottomley
2020-10-05 20:32       ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2020-10-19 23:16   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-24 12:07     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-30 12:13       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-01 18:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] tpm_tis: Clean up locality release James Bottomley
2020-10-05 17:02   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-05 19:05     ` James Bottomley
2020-10-05 20:34       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-05 17:03   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-19 23:17   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-24 12:10     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-30 12:17       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-30 15:47         ` James Bottomley
2020-10-30 21:52           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-01 18:09 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] tpm_tis: Fix interrupts for TIS TPMs without legacy cycles James Bottomley
2020-10-05 17:05   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-20  0:14   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-24 12:15     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-30 12:18       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-30 16:06         ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-11-03  4:16           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-12-01 18:12   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-12-01 19:49     ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-12-01 21:06       ` James Bottomley
2020-12-01 21:47         ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-01 18:09 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] tpm_tis: fix IRQ probing James Bottomley
2020-10-05 17:05   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-19 23:41   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-24 12:17     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-30 12:43       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-30 15:49         ` James Bottomley
2020-10-30 16:11           ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-11-03  4:43             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-11-03 23:00               ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-11-04  0:31                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-11-03  4:17           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-11-06 15:32         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-11-06 16:21           ` James Bottomley
2020-11-06 22:07             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-01 18:09 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] Revert "tpm: Revert "tpm_tis_core: Turn on the TPM before probing IRQ's"" James Bottomley
2020-10-19 20:23   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-19 22:54     ` James Bottomley
2020-10-19 23:40   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-12  5:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] tpm_tis: fix interrupts (again) Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-13  1:23   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-18  5:34     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-13  1:17 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-13 15:15   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-13 15:24     ` James Bottomley
2020-10-13 16:05       ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-14 15:03         ` Hans de Goede
2020-10-14 15:23           ` James Bottomley
2020-10-14 16:04             ` Hans de Goede
2020-10-14 16:34               ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-14 16:46                 ` Hans de Goede
2020-10-14 17:01                   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-14 17:04                     ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-14 20:58                   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-15  7:38                     ` Hans de Goede
2020-10-18 21:09                       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-15 15:36                     ` James Bottomley
2020-10-15 18:48                       ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-15 18:57                         ` James Bottomley
2020-10-15 19:16                           ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-14 16:49                 ` James Bottomley
2020-10-18 21:05     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-20 23:10       ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-24 12:20         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-10-26 18:29           ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-10-27 17:14             ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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