linux/drivers/char
Stefan Berger 6627be8b36 tpm: ibmvtpm: Avoid error message when process gets signal while waiting
[ Upstream commit 047d4226b0 ]

When rngd is run as root then lots of these types of message will appear
in the kernel log if the TPM has been configured to provide random bytes:

[ 7406.275163] tpm tpm0: tpm_transmit: tpm_recv: error -4

The issue is caused by the following call that is interrupted while
waiting for the TPM's response.

sig = wait_event_interruptible(ibmvtpm->wq, !ibmvtpm->tpm_processing_cmd);

Rather than waiting for the response in the low level driver, have it use
the polling loop in tpm_try_transmit() that uses a command's duration to
poll until a result has been returned by the TPM, thus ending when the
timeout has occurred but not responding to signals and ctrl-c anymore. To
stay in this polling loop extend tpm_ibmvtpm_status() to return
'true' for as long as the vTPM is indicated as being busy in
tpm_processing_cmd. Since the loop requires the TPM's timeouts, get them
now using tpm_get_timeouts() after setting the TPM2 version flag on the
chip.

To recreat the resolved issue start rngd like this:

sudo rngd -r /dev/hwrng -t
sudo rngd -r /dev/tpm0 -t

Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1981473
Fixes: 6674ff145e ("tpm_ibmvtpm: properly handle interrupted packet receptions")
Cc: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: George Wilson <gcwilson@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-09-15 09:50:30 +02:00
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tpm tpm: ibmvtpm: Avoid error message when process gets signal while waiting 2021-09-15 09:50:30 +02:00
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