Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix a race condition in tpm2_unseal_trusted()

[Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 12:51:49PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 08:36:52AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >  
> > @@ -576,7 +576,8 @@ static int tpm2_load(struct tpm_chip *chip,
> >  		goto out;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	rc = tpm_transmit_cmd(chip, buf.data, PAGE_SIZE, "loading blob");
> > +	rc = tpm_transmit_cmd(chip, buf.data, PAGE_SIZE, TPM_TRANSMIT_UNLOCKED,
> > +			      "loading blob");
> 
> I still don't like this, required mutex's should not be split outside the
> function that needs them without more a more obvious indication:
> 
> > +	mutex_lock(&chip->tpm_mutex);
> >  	rc = tpm2_load(chip, payload, options, &blob_handle);
> >  	if (rc)
> > -		return rc;
> 
> I recommend you stick with the idiom and do this:
> 
>         mutex_lock(&chip->tpm_mutex);
>   	rc = tpm2_load(chip, payload, options, &blob_handle, TPM_TRANSMIT_UNLOCKED);
> 
> Which makes it easy to see we are doing it right everywhere.

Why consume stack for unnecessary stuff? This is a static function. For
me this sounds like cutting hairs really.

One thing that would improve readability would be to rename internal
functions tpm2_load and tpm2_unseal to tpm2_load_cmd and tpm2_unseal_cmd
in order to underline that they are command wrappers and not to mix with
tpm2_unseal_trusted().

I've been thinking to move that kind of convetion at least with TPM2
specific stuff when a function is clearly a wrapper. It kind of
documents the call path. I.e. if function satifies a constraint that
it prepares a command blob, calls tpm_transmit_cmd once and then
returns results to the caller this would be the naming convention.

> Jason

/Jarkko