Re: [PATCH v6] tpm: fix Atmel TPM crash caused by too frequent queries

[Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 2021-09-08 at 02:26 -0700, Hao Wu wrote:
> The Atmel TPM 1.2 chips crash with error
> `tpm_try_transmit: send(): error -62` since kernel 4.14.
> It is observed from the kernel log after running `tpm_sealdata -z`.
> The error thrown from the command is as follows
> ```
> $ tpm_sealdata -z
> Tspi_Key_LoadKey failed: 0x00001087 - layer=tddl,
> code=0087 (135), I/O error
> ```
> 
> The issue was reproduced with the following Atmel TPM chip:
> ```
> $ tpm_version
> T0  TPM 1.2 Version Info:
>   Chip Version:        1.2.66.1
>   Spec Level:          2
>   Errata Revision:     3
>   TPM Vendor ID:       ATML
>   TPM Version:         01010000
>   Manufacturer Info:   41544d4c
> ```
> 
> The root cause of the issue is due to the TPM calls to msleep()
> were replaced with usleep_range() [1], which reduces
> the actual timeout. Via experiments, it is observed that
> the original msleep(5) actually sleeps for 15ms.
> Because of a known timeout issue in Atmel TPM 1.2 chip,
> the shorter timeout than 15ms can cause the error described above.
> 
> A few further changes in kernel 4.16 [2] and 4.18 [3, 4] further
> reduced the timeout to less than 1ms. With experiments,
> the problematic timeout in the latest kernel is the one
> for `wait_for_tpm_stat`.
> 
> To fix it, the patch reverts the timeout of `wait_for_tpm_stat`
> to 15ms for all Atmel TPM 1.2 chips, but leave it untouched
> for Ateml TPM 2.0 chip, and chips from other vendors.
> As explained above, the chosen 15ms timeout is
> the actual timeout before this issue introduced,
> thus the old value is used here.
> Particularly, TPM_ATML_TIMEOUT_WAIT_STAT_MIN is set to 14700us,
> TPM_ATML_TIMEOUT_WAIT_STAT_MIN is set to 15000us according to
> the existing TPM_TIMEOUT_RANGE_US (300us).
> The fixed has been tested in the system with the affected Atmel chip
> with no issues observed after boot up.
> 
> References:
> [1] 9f3fc7bcddcb tpm: replace msleep() with usleep_range() in TPM
> 1.2/2.0 generic drivers
> [2] cf151a9a44d5 tpm: reduce tpm polling delay in tpm_tis_core
> [3] 59f5a6b07f64 tpm: reduce poll sleep time in tpm_transmit()
> [4] 424eaf910c32 tpm: reduce polling time to usecs for even finer
> granularity
> 
> Fixes: 9f3fc7bcddcb ("tpm: replace msleep() with usleep_range() in TPM 1.2/2.0 generic drivers")
> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-integrity/patch/20200926223150.109645-1-hao.wu@rubrik.com/
> Signed-off-by: Hao Wu <hao.wu@rubrik.com>

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>

/Jarkko