Re: [PATCH v4] tpm: fix an invalid condition in tpm_common_poll

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Tue Apr 23 2019 - 20:43:35 EST


On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:54:47PM +0200, Jonas Witschel wrote:
On 2019-04-09 15:44, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 02:01:38PM +0200, Thibaut Sautereau wrote:
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What's the status of this patch now? It's needed in linux-5.0.y as TPM
2.0 support is currently broken with those stable kernels without this
commit.

part of a PR.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20190329115544.GA27351@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

It appears that the final version of the patch that was merged to
Linus's tree [1] does not include the "Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" tag.
If I understand correctly, this means that the patch will not be
automatically included in the -stable tree without further action. Is
there a specific reason not to apply this patch to 5.0.x, or did the tag
just get lost in the merge process?

Good catch; I see that Jarkko had the same comment on v3 but v4 ended up
being without the -stable tag without any explanation. I've queued this
for 5.0, it doesn't seem relevant for older branches.

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Thanks,
Sasha