Re: [PATCH v10 08/17] tpm: call tpm2_flush_space() on error in tpm_try_transmit()

James Bottomley
2019-01-29T17:06:06Z

On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 23:23 +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
[...]
> - rc = tpm2_commit_space(chip, space, ordinal, buf, &len);
> +out_space:
> + if (rc)
> + tpm2_flush_space(chip);
> + else
> + rc = tpm2_commit_space(chip, space, ordinal, buf,
> &len);

I don't think this is quite right. tpm2_flush_space only flushes the
handles it knows about and those are the ones from before the TPM
operation was attempted. If the operation has altered the internal
state we could miss a created handle in this flush and it would
effectively reside forever in the TPM. We should be able to rely on
the TPM preserving the original state if it returns an error, so I
think your patch works for that part. However rc is also set to
-EFAULT on a transmission error and if that's on the receive path, the
TPM may have changed state before the error occurred.

If the object is to move the TPM back to where it was before the error
occurred, even in the case of transmit errors, then I think we need to
invent a new kind of flush that queries the current TPM state and then
flushes everything.

James