Re: [REGRESSION] suspend to ram fails in 6.1 due to tpm errors

["Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>]

Hi Vlastimil,

Thanks for CC'ing me.

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 09:15:33AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Dominik on IRC pointed me to commit b006c439d58d ("hwrng: core - start hwrng
> kthread also for untrusted sources"), which could make sense if the TPM was not
> used at all before and now it's used for randomness. But then it probably "just"
> uncovered a pre-existing issue? Maybe there's a race with getting the randomness
> and suspend? Could it be exactly what this patch is attempting to fix?
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221103145450.1409273-2-jsd@semihalf.com/

The commit you referenced just turns on some functionality that most
people previously didn't have (but maybe could have, manually). So this
is a case of a new commit unearthing a bug in some old code. We had
something similar happen with a raspi driver and fixed the bug there.
From the looks of the lore link you provided, it sounds like the same
thing has happened already there to tpm? That this is already fixed by
that commit? I think if you have a system that's readily exhibiting the
issue, the best thing to do would be to try that series, and report
back, maybe even providing your `Tested-by:` line if it works.

I'll play around and see if I can repro too. Looks like you have a T460?
I don't have exactly that but maybe something close enough.

Jason