From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] tpm_tis: Disable interrupts if interrupt storm detected
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 19:43:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201208174344.GC58213@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db6ccb14819c4c7a32e886eade144884fafc55fe.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:58:44AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 15:28 -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 08:26:16PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > Just as a side note. I was looking at tpm_tis_probe_irq_single()
> > > and that function is leaking the interrupt request if any of the
> > > checks afterwards fails, except for the final interrupt probe check
> > > which does a cleanup. That means on fail before that the interrupt
> > > handler stays requested up to the point where the module is
> > > removed. If that's a shared interrupt and some other device is
> > > active on the same line, then each interrupt from that device will
> > > call into the TPM code. Something like the below is needed.
> > >
> > > Also the X86 autoprobe mechanism is interesting:
> > >
> > > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86))
> > > for (i = 3; i <= 15; i++)
> > > if (!tpm_tis_probe_irq_single(chip, intmask, 0,
> > > i))
> > > return;
> > >
> > > The third argument is 'flags' which is handed to request_irq(). So
> > > that won't ever be able to probe a shared interrupt. But if an
> > > interrupt number > 0 is handed to tpm_tis_core_init() the interrupt
> > > is requested with IRQF_SHARED. Same issue when the chip has an
> > > interrupt number in the register. It's also requested exclusive
> > > which is pretty likely to fail on ancient x86 machines.
> >
> > It is very likely none of this works any more, it has been repeatedly
> > reworked over the years and just left behind out of fear someone
> > needs it. I've thought it should be deleted for a while now.
> >
> > I suppose the original logic was to try and probe without SHARED
> > because a probe would need exclusive access to the interrupt to tell
> > if the TPM was actually the source, not some other device.
> >
> > It is all very old and very out of step with current thinking, IMHO.
> > I skeptical that TPM interrupts were ever valuable enough to deserve
> > this in the first place.
>
> For what it's worth, I agree. Trying to probe all 15 ISA interrupts is
> last millennium thinking we should completely avoid. If it's not
> described in ACPI then you don't get an interrupt full stop.
>
> James
Maybe you could add this as part of your patches?
/Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-05 1:43 [PATCH v3 0/4] tpm_tis: Detect interrupt storms Jerry Snitselaar
2020-12-05 1:43 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] irq: export kstat_irqs Jerry Snitselaar
2020-12-05 10:39 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-12-06 16:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-06 17:40 ` James Bottomley
2020-12-06 19:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-06 17:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-06 21:46 ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-12-05 1:43 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] drm/i915/pmu: Use kstat_irqs to get interrupt count Jerry Snitselaar
2020-12-06 16:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-06 21:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-08 9:54 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-12-06 21:47 ` Jerry Snitselaar
2020-12-06 23:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-10 7:53 ` [Intel-gfx] " Joonas Lahtinen
2020-12-10 10:45 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-12-10 16:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-10 17:09 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-12-10 17:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-10 17:51 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-12-05 1:43 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] tpm_tis: Disable interrupts if interrupt storm detected Jerry Snitselaar
2020-12-06 19:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-12-07 19:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-07 19:58 ` James Bottomley
2020-12-08 17:43 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2020-12-08 17:42 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-12-05 1:43 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] tpm_tis: Disable Interrupts on the ThinkPad L490 Jerry Snitselaar
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