Re: [PATCH] tpm: avoid accessing cleared ops during shutdown

[Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 08:48:38AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 4:32 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
> <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:25:44AM -0700, Andrey Pronin wrote:
> > > > Why does not tpm_del_char_device need this?
> > >
> > > "Not" is a typo in the sentence above, right? tpm_del_char_device *does*
> > > need the fix. When tpm_class_shutdown is called it sets chip->ops to
> > > NULL. If tpm_del_char_device is called after that, it doesn't check if
> > > chip->ops is NULL (normal kernel API and char device API calls go
> > > through tpm_try_get_ops, but tpm_del_char_device doesn't) and proceeds to
> > > call tpm2_shutdown(), which tries sending the command and dereferences
> > > chip->ops.
> >
> > It's a typo, yes. Sorry about that.
> >
> > tpm_class_shutdown() is essentially tail of tpm_del_char_device().
> >
> > To clean things up, I'd suggest dropping tpm_del_char_device() and
> > call tpm_class_shutdown() in tpm_chip_unregisters() along, and open
> > coding things that prepend it in tpm_del_char_device().
> >
> 
> Personally I would have preferred two separate patches, one to fix the
> immediate problem (with Cc: stable) and one for the cleanup, but I
> guess merging both into one is ok as long as it is marked for stable.
> 
> Thanks,
> Guenter

Not sure about stable as this issue does not afaik concern earlier
kernel versions?

/Jarkko