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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
To: "Michael Niewöhner" <linux@mniewoehner.de>,
	"Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
	"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	peterhuewe@gmx.de, jgg@ziepe.ca, arnd@arndb.de,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Nayna Jain" <nayna@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Ken Goldman" <kgold@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: tpm_tis TPM2.0 not detected on cold boot
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 17:53:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1545519232.3940.115.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f281756bb1f041e55be8dd090670a1a7b1d1c94.camel@mniewoehner.de>

On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 14:47 +0100, Michael Niewöhner wrote:

> When I remove the timeout and boot directly to the linux kernel, I get that
> "2314 TPM-self test error" since it has not finished, yet. The TPM is detected
> by IMA and works fine then.
> 
> Some more tests showed that any delay before booting the kernel causes the TPM
> to not get detected. I tested, 10, 15, 20, 30, 60... seconds. Only in some very
> rare cases the TPM got detected.
> 
> I wanted to know if the TPM is in an well initialized state at the time of that
> error. Since I was not able to get some test/debug kernel patches working I
> decided to try kexec. It turned out that the TPM is indeed correctly working and
> will be detected just fine by linux after kexec!

No surprise here.  kexec would be the equivalent of a soft reboot.

> 
> Is there anyone having an idea what could be wrong here? I am willing to debug
> this but I have really no idea where to start :-(

A while ago, I was "playing" with a pi.  Commenting out
tpm2_do_selftest() seemed to resolve a similar problem, but that was
before James' patches.  I don't know if that would make a difference
now.

Mimi


  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-22 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-16 13:32 tpm_tis TPM2.0 not detected on cold boot Michael Niewöhner
2018-12-22 13:47 ` Michael Niewöhner
2018-12-22 22:53   ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2018-12-23 11:55     ` Michael Niewöhner
2018-12-25 13:55       ` Michael Niewöhner
2018-12-30  3:33         ` Mimi Zohar
2018-12-30 13:22           ` Michael Niewöhner
2018-12-31 18:10             ` Ken Goldman
2018-12-31 21:17             ` Mimi Zohar
2019-01-01 16:15               ` Michael Niewöhner
2019-01-01 16:38                 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-01-01 16:47                   ` Michael Niewöhner
2018-12-31 17:56           ` Ken Goldman
2019-01-03 13:27       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-01-03 13:38         ` Michael Niewöhner
2019-01-03 15:04           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-01-03 15:47             ` Michael Niewöhner
2019-01-04 11:58               ` Michael Niewöhner
2019-01-04 15:28                 ` Michael Niewöhner
2019-01-04 18:26                   ` Michael Niewöhner
2019-01-10 17:28                   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-01-10 18:03                     ` Michael Niewöhner
2019-01-10 17:19               ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-01-10 18:00                 ` Michael Niewöhner
2019-01-03 13:41 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-01-03 13:55   ` Michael Niewöhner

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