From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@selhorst.net>,
"moderated list:TPM DEVICE DRIVER"
<tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix crash in tpm_tis deinitialization
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 09:58:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160413065805.GB6986@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160413061651.GA6986@intel.com>
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 09:16:51AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:26:55AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:26:27AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > This needs to be after ops is fenced, something like this.
> > >
> > > I would appreciate a supporting argument.
> > >
> > > I guess the argument here is that this will prevent user space from
> > > issuing TPM commands after the shutdown command has been sent?
> >
> > It prevents everything including the kernel from issuing a command
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> That lock is not used to exclude kernel access. Read lock is only taken
> for the user space device in tpm-dev.c.
My bad. For the in-kernel API it is taken through tpm_find_get().
I'll update the fix.
/Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-13 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-11 16:05 [PATCH] tpm: fix crash in tpm_tis deinitialization Jarkko Sakkinen
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2016-04-11 17:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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2016-04-12 4:26 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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2016-04-12 17:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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2016-04-13 6:16 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-04-13 6:58 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
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2016-04-13 17:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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