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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	Ashley Lai <ashley@ashleylai.com>,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@selhorst.net>,
	tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: fix multiple race conditions in tpm_ppi.c
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:55:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141021165551.GA28382@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413879761-25392-1-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:22:41AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> * Traversal of the ACPI device tree was not done right. It should lookup
>   PPI only under the ACPI device that it is associated. Otherwise, it could
>   match to a wrong PPI interface if there are two TPM devices in the device
>   tree.
> * Removed global ACPI handle and version string from tpm_ppi.c as this
>   is racy. Instead they should be associated with the chip.
> * Moved code just a tiny bit towards two-phase allocation to implement
>   fix for the PPI race conditions.
> * Added missing copyright platter in tpm_ppi.c.

The PPI parts of this look fine to me, and are a really nice cleanup,
thanks!

Personally, I'd sequence this commit right after your 'tpm: two-phase
chip management functions' commit because it makes it much saner (no
half step toward the new functions). I assume this is a theoretical
problem? Or do you have a two TPM system?

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-21 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-21  8:22 [PATCH] tpm: fix multiple race conditions in tpm_ppi.c Jarkko Sakkinen
2014-10-21 16:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2014-10-21 20:42   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Jarkko Sakkinen
2014-10-21 21:02     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2014-10-22 10:05       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2014-10-22 13:00         ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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