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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	Andrey Pronin <apronin@chromium.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm_tis_spi: Don't send anything during flow control
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 23:44:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200616204405.GA20943@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD=FV=Vgjs4gALALWYVLEYfbFtXi69FrVYziJ9x=YA5RjrV1ww@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 06:48:58AM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 2:40 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
> <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 03:54:03PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> > > Does that answer your question, or were you worried about us needing
> > > to init iobuf[0] to 0 in some other case?
> > >
> > > -Doug
> >
> > No, but it should be treated as a bug fix for CR50 implementation i.e.
> > for 797c0113c9a481d4554988d70b5b52fae657262f, or is there some reason
> > why it shouldn't?
> 
> As talked about in the commit message, I think this is a slight
> cleanup for non-Cr50 too.  Specifically if we end up running through
> the TPM_RETRY loop a second time we weren't re-initting "phy->iobuf[0]
> = 0;"  That means that the 2nd time through the loop we were actually
> sending the TPM back the byte that the TPM sent us the first time
> through the loop.
> 
> Presumably this doesn't matter much, but it still feels nicer not to
> be sending the TPM's bytes back to it when we're not really supposed
> to.
> 
> Also, as mentioned in the commit message, I haven't observed this
> fixing any problems.  I only came up with it from code inspection
> while trying to track something else down.

Thanks, I'm happy how it is.

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>

/Jarkko

      reply	other threads:[~2020-06-16 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-28 22:19 [PATCH] tpm_tis_spi: Don't send anything during flow control Douglas Anderson
2020-05-29  8:33 ` Paul Menzel
2020-05-29 15:37   ` Doug Anderson
2020-06-01  1:47 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-01 22:54   ` Doug Anderson
2020-06-04  9:40     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-06-04 13:48       ` Doug Anderson
2020-06-16 20:44         ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]

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