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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: George Wilson <gcwilson@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>,
	Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linh Pham <phaml@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tpm: ibmvtpm: retry on H_CLOSED in tpm_ibmvtpm_send()
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:50:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200319195011.GB24804@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200318234927.206075-1-gcwilson@linux.ibm.com>

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 07:49:27PM -0400, George Wilson wrote:
> tpm_ibmvtpm_send() can fail during PowerVM Live Partition Mobility resume
> with an H_CLOSED return from ibmvtpm_send_crq().  The PAPR says, 'The
> “partner partition suspended” transport event disables the associated CRQ
> such that any H_SEND_CRQ hcall() to the associated CRQ returns H_Closed
> until the CRQ has been explicitly enabled using the H_ENABLE_CRQ hcall.'
> This patch adds a check in tpm_ibmvtpm_send() for an H_CLOSED return from
> ibmvtpm_send_crq() and in that case calls tpm_ibmvtpm_resume() and
> retries the ibmvtpm_send_crq() once.
> 
> Reported-by: Linh Pham <phaml@us.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: George Wilson <gcwilson@linux.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Linh Pham <phaml@us.ibm.com>
> Fixes: 132f76294744 ("Add new device driver to support IBM vTPM")

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

Thank you.

/Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-19 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-18 23:49 [PATCH v3] tpm: ibmvtpm: retry on H_CLOSED in tpm_ibmvtpm_send() George Wilson
2020-03-19 19:50 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2020-03-19 19:55   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-03-19 23:15     ` George Wilson
2020-03-20  2:00       ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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