Re: [PATCH 1/2 v3] tpm: cmd_ready command can be issued only after granting locality

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Mon Feb 19 2018 - 06:27:15 EST


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 03:43:18PM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> if (need_locality && chip->ops->relinquish_locality) {
> - chip->ops->relinquish_locality(chip, chip->locality);
> + /* this coud be on error path, don't override error code */
> + int l_rc = chip->ops->relinquish_locality(chip, chip->locality);

All local variable declarations must be in the beginning of the
function.

> +
> + if (l_rc) {
> + dev_err(&chip->dev, "%s: relinquish_locality: error %d\n",
> + __func__, l_rc);
> + rc = l_rc;
> + }

Your comment about not overriding error code is incorrect.

The value of 'rc' should be never overridden, which kind of supports
to "just print" behavior that we had for a locality error.

Is your fix somehow dependent on changing relinquish_locality()
behavior? If not, please remove this change. If you want to contribute
such behavioral change, you should make a separate patch of it.

Now it's like a trojan horse bundled inside a bug fix.

/Jarkko