Re: TPM/EFI issue [Was: Linux 6.12]

["Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>]

On Wed Nov 27, 2024 at 8:46 AM EET, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Cc TPM + EFI guys.
>
> On 17. 11. 24, 23:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > But before the merge window opens, please give this a quick test to
> > make sure we didn't mess anything up. The shortlog below gives you the
> > summary for the last week, and nothing really jumps out at me. A
> > number of last-minute reverts, and some random fairly small fixes
> > fairly spread out in the tree.
>
> Hi,
>
> there is a subtle bug in 6.12 wrt TPM (in TPM, EFI, or perhaps in 
> something else):
> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233752
>
> Our testing (openQA) fails with 6.12:
> https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/4657304#step/trup_smoke/26
>
> The last good is with 6.11.7:
> https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/4648526
>
> In sum:
> TPM is supposed to provide a key for decrypting the root partitition, 
> but fails for some reason.
>
> It's extremely hard (so far) to reproduce outside of openQA (esp. when 
> trying custom kernels).
>
> Most of the 6.12 TPM stuff already ended in (good) 6.11.7. I tried to 
> revert:
>    423893fcbe7e tpm: Disable TPM on tpm2_create_primary() failure
> from 6.12 but that still fails.
>
> We are debugging this further, this is just so you know.
>
> Or maybe you have some immediate ideas?

Nothing immediate but I've had to tweak quite a lot of TPM bus
integrity protection feature so it is a possibility that I've
made a mistake in a point or another.

Can you bisect the issue possibly?

PS. I'm travelling next week in Spain so next time I can debug
the issue is +1 week from now (just so that you know).

BR, Jarkko