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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
	tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@selhorst.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tpm, tpm_crb: fix unaligned read of the command buffer address
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:19:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150916071917.GA15204@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150915172227.GA24173@obsidianresearch.com>

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:22:27AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:05:40PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > The command buffer address must be read with exactly two 32-bit reads.
> > Otherwise, on some HW platforms, it seems that HW will abort the read
> > operation, which causes CPU to fill the read bytes with 1's. Therefore,
> > we cannot rely on memcpy_fromio() but must call ioread32() two times
> > instead.
> > 
> > Also, this matches the PC Client Platform TPM Profile specification,
> > which defines command buffer address with two 32-bit fields.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
> >  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c | 7 ++++---
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c
> > index b4564b6..c09b370 100644
> > +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_crb.c
> > @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ struct crb_control_area {
> >  	u32 int_enable;
> >  	u32 int_sts;
> >  	u32 cmd_size;
> > -	u64 cmd_pa;
> > +	u32 cmd_pa_low;
> > +	u32 cmd_pa_high;
> >  	u32 rsp_size;
> >  	u64 rsp_pa;
> 
> What about rsp_pa?

It's naturally aligned and defined as 64-bit field in:

http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/developers/pc_client/specifications

Also in a platform (not available in public yet) it gets read correctly.

> >  } __packed;
> 
> As I mentioned, drop the __packed.

I didn't do that because it is not mandatory for the bug fix.

I would rather submit it as a separate commit later on.

> Otherwise:
> 
> Reviewed-By: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
> 
> Jason

/Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-16  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-15 17:05 [PATCH v3] tpm, tpm_crb: fix unaligned read of the command buffer address Jarkko Sakkinen
2015-09-15 17:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2015-09-16  7:19   ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2015-09-16 13:34     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2015-10-09 10:58 ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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