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

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Wed May 30 2018 - 07:02:02 EST


On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 01:41:15PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:57:07AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> > On 05/23/2018 06:23 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > Ouch o_O Do you have a fixes tag for this one?
> > >
> >
> > This one is quite tricky.
> > The original bug was introduced by abce9ac292e13 (tpm: Propagate error from tpm_transmit to fix a timeout hang)
> > and the code back then was in drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c file
>
> No, it has been wrong since before git history started, so just use
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
>
> All the other commits you listed are just moving the bad code around
> to new files.
>
> Jason

OK, thank you Jason. I'll use that.

/Jarkko