Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix crash when FD >= 1024

[Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>]

On 9/11/23 07:36, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Marc-Andr޸ Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>
> Replace select() with poll() to fix a crash when QEMU has a large number
> of FDs.
>
> Fixes:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2020133

The description there seems wrong. It's a limit of the POSIX API not the 
vTPM device driver.

>
> Signed-off-by: Marc-Andr޸ Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>



> ---
>   backends/tpm/tpm_util.c | 12 +++---------
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/backends/tpm/tpm_util.c b/backends/tpm/tpm_util.c
> index a6e6d3e72f..5f4c9f5b6f 100644
> --- a/backends/tpm/tpm_util.c
> +++ b/backends/tpm/tpm_util.c
> @@ -112,12 +112,9 @@ static int tpm_util_request(int fd,
>                               void *response,
>                               size_t responselen)
>   {
> -    fd_set readfds;
> +    GPollFD fds[1] = { {.fd = fd, .events = G_IO_IN } };
>       int n;
> -    struct timeval tv = {
> -        .tv_sec = 1,
> -        .tv_usec = 0,
> -    };
> +    int timeout = 1000;
>
>       n = write(fd, request, requestlen);
>       if (n < 0) {
> @@ -127,11 +124,8 @@ static int tpm_util_request(int fd,
>           return -EFAULT;
>       }
>
> -    FD_ZERO(&readfds);
> -    FD_SET(fd, &readfds);
> -
>       /* wait for a second */
> -    n = select(fd + 1, &readfds, NULL, NULL, &tv);
> +    n = RETRY_ON_EINTR(g_poll(fds, 1, timeout));
>       if (n != 1) {
>           return -errno;
>       }