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From: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: jmorris@namei.org, pebolle@tiscali.nl,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tpmdd@selhorst.net
Subject: Re: [PULL] TPM: MAINTAINERS contacts update and error report fix
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 14:16:44 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA8037C.8010304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336076080.13866.49.camel@joe2Laptop>

On 03/05/12 17:14, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 14:10 -0300, Rajiv Andrade wrote:
>> The first as the subject implies is just a contacts update, and the second
>> makes the driver avoid to mistakenly report the disabled and deactivated TPM
>> states as an error.
> trivia:
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
> []
>> @@ -845,7 +845,16 @@ int tpm_do_selftest(struct tpm_chip *chip)
>>   		return rc;
>>
>>   	do {
>> -		rc = __tpm_pcr_read(chip, 0, digest);
>> +		/* Attempt to read a PCR value */
>> +		cmd.header.in = pcrread_header;
>> +		cmd.params.pcrread_in.pcr_idx = cpu_to_be32(0);
>> +		rc = tpm_transmit(chip, (u8 *)&cmd, READ_PCR_RESULT_SIZE);
>> +
>> +		if (rc<  TPM_HEADER_SIZE)
>> +			return -EFAULT;
>> +		else
>> +			rc = be32_to_cpu(cmd.header.out.return_code);
> The else shouldn't be used here.
> Indented code followed by an unindented test is not nice.
Yep.. I missed it.
>
>> +
>>   		if (rc == TPM_ERR_DISABLED || rc == TPM_ERR_DEACTIVATED) {
>>   			dev_info(chip->dev,
>>   				 "TPM is disabled/deactivated (0x%X)\n", rc);
> A more kernel style conformant style looks like:
>
> 		rc = tpm_transmit(chip, (u8 *)&cmd, READ_PCR_RESULT_SIZE);
> 		if (rc<  TPM_HEADER_SIZE)
> 			return -EFAULT;
>
> 		rc = be32_to_cpu(cmd.header.out.return_code);
>   		if (rc == TPM_ERR_DISABLED || rc == TPM_ERR_DEACTIVATED) {
> 			etc...
>
>
Thanks for pointing.

James, please ignore, I'll send a better version of this fix.

Rajiv


      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-03 17:10 [PULL] TPM: MAINTAINERS contacts update and error report fix Rajiv Andrade
2012-05-03 20:14 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-07 17:16   ` Rajiv Andrade [this message]

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