Re: [v4.0][v4.1][v4.2][Regression] tpm: fix raciness of PPI interface lookup

Jarkko Sakkinen
2015-09-15T10:53:43Z

Hi

Sorry for the late reply. Looking into this now and sending feedback
later today.

/Jarkko

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 05:36:07PM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Hi Jarkko,
>
> A kernel bug report was opened against Ubuntu [0] and in bugzilla[1]. A
> kernel bisect was performed, and it identified the following commit as
> the first bad commit:
>
> commit 0dc553652102c55a43eb1ab52e2049e478469f53
> Author: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Fri Dec 12 11:46:35 2014 -0800
>
> tpm: fix raciness of PPI interface lookup
>
>
> The regression was introduced as of v4.0-rc1.
>
> I was hoping to get your feedback, since you are the patch author. Do
> you think gathering any additional data will help diagnose this issue,
> or would it be best to submit a revert request? An issue with the
> revert request is that it would also require reverting several other
> commits that came after this commit or a backport of the revert.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
> [0] http://pad.lv/1491467
> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53071
>