Re: [PATCH 0/3] v4.16 tpmdd backports

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:53:32AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 13:06 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 01:44:20PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > "tpm: add retry logic" caused merge conflicts so I picked couple of
> > > other fixes in order to get it apply cleanly.
> > 
> > Are these only needed in 4.16.y?  Nothing earlier?
> 
> The retry one (tpm: add retry logic) could go back as far as you can,
> but the bug it causes is rarely seen: mostly it's a failure of the
> kernel trusted keys due to a tpm retry being interpreted as a fatal
> error.  The number of users we have for kernel trusted keys seems to be
> pretty small ...
> 
> I'd say if the backport works as is, go for it, but if we get a patch
> apply failure, it's probably not worth trying to work out how to modify
> the patch again until someone actually complains about the problem.

They seem to all work for 4.14.y and 4.16.y, so now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h