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From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>,
	"Mario Limonciello" <mario.limonciello@amd.com>,
	"Paul Menzel" <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Cc: <linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jerry Snitselaar" <jsnitsel@redhat.com>,
	<stable@vger.kernel.org>, "Todd Brandt" <todd.e.brandt@intel.com>,
	"Peter Huewe" <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	"Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@ziepe.ca>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>, "Ronan Pigott" <ronan@rjp.ie>,
	"Raymond Jay Golo" <rjgolo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tpm: Enable hwrng only for Pluton on AMD CPUs
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2023 21:18:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CVAC8VQPD3PK.1CBS5QTWDSS2C@suppilovahvero> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CVABVIQB3858.CWOHMN527J67@suppilovahvero>

On Mon Sep 4, 2023 at 9:00 PM EEST, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Mon Aug 28, 2023 at 3:35 AM EEST, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > On 8/27/2023 13:12, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > On Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 9:58 PM EEST, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > >> On 8/23/2023 12:40, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > >>> On Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 11:23 AM EEST, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > >>>> Dear Jarkko,
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thank you for your patch.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Am 23.08.23 um 01:15 schrieb Jarkko Sakkinen:
> > >>>>> The vendor check introduced by commit 554b841d4703 ("tpm: Disable RNG for
> > >>>>> all AMD fTPMs") doesn't work properly on a number of Intel fTPMs.  On the
> > >>>>> reported systems the TPM doesn't reply at bootup and returns back the
> > >>>>> command code. This makes the TPM fail probe.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Since only Microsoft Pluton is the only known combination of AMD CPU and
> > >>>>> fTPM from other vendor, disable hwrng otherwise. In order to make sysadmin
> > >>>>> aware of this, print also info message to the klog.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > >>>>> Fixes: 554b841d4703 ("tpm: Disable RNG for all AMD fTPMs")
> > >>>>> Reported-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@intel.com>
> > >>>>> Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217804
> > >>>>> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Mario’s patch also had the three reporters below listed:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Reported-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
> > >>>> Reported-by: Ronan Pigott <ronan@rjp.ie>
> > >>>> Reported-by: Raymond Jay Golo <rjgolo@gmail.com>
> > >>>
> > >>> The problem here is that checkpatch throws three warnings:
> > >>>
> > >>> WARNING: Reported-by: should be immediately followed by Closes: with a URL to the report
> > >>> #19:
> > >>> Reported-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
> > >>> Reported-by: Ronan Pigott <ronan@rjp.ie>
> > >>>
> > >>> WARNING: Reported-by: should be immediately followed by Closes: with a URL to the report
> > >>> #20:
> > >>> Reported-by: Ronan Pigott <ronan@rjp.ie>
> > >>> Reported-by: Raymond Jay Golo <rjgolo@gmail.com>
> > >>>
> > >>> WARNING: Reported-by: should be immediately followed by Closes: with a URL to the report
> > >>> #21:
> > >>> Reported-by: Raymond Jay Golo <rjgolo@gmail.com>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> FWIW I observed the same checkpatch warning when I submitted my version
> > >> of the patch.  I figured it's better to ignore the warning and attribute
> > >> everyone who reported the issue affected them.
> > > 
> > > OK so:
> > > 
> > > 1. checkpatch.pl is part of the kernel process.
> > > 2. Bugzilla is not part of the kernel process.
> > > 
> > > Why emphasis on 1?
> > > 
> > > BR, Jarkko
> >
> > The reason I submitted it this way is because of this quote from the 
> > documentation [1].
> >
> > "Check your patches with the patch style checker prior to submission 
> > (scripts/checkpatch.pl). Note, though, that the style checker should be 
> > viewed as a guide, not as a replacement for human judgment. If your code 
> > looks better with a violation then its probably best left alone."
> >
> > I wanted the patch to capture and attribute all those that reported it 
> > not just the "first one".  Like I said previously, it's better to have a 
> > collection of people to ping to notify if something needs to be reverted.
> >
> > [1] 
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#style-check-your-changes
>
> Please denote also that kernel bugzilla is not mentioned in the page
> that you put as a reference, and only reporter in the LKML has been
> Todd.

Also the bugzilla is ambiguous because in this thread I get a picture
that any possible commenter is a reporter, and at the same time bugzilla
has a *specific field* for a reporter.

How do the comments and the field for the reporter relate, and how they
should be interpreted?

BR, Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-04 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-22 23:15 [PATCH v3] tpm: Enable hwrng only for Pluton on AMD CPUs Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-08-23  8:23 ` Paul Menzel
2023-08-23 17:40   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-08-23 18:58     ` Mario Limonciello
2023-08-27 18:12       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-08-28  0:35         ` Mario Limonciello
2023-08-29  8:38           ` Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-09-01  8:49             ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-09-04 22:32               ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-09-05 12:01                 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-09-11 10:40                   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-09-11 10:42                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-09-04 18:00           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-09-04 18:18             ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2023-08-23 19:24     ` checkpatch complains about Reported-by block (was: [PATCH v3] tpm: Enable hwrng only for Pluton on AMD CPUs) Paul Menzel
2023-08-24  4:43       ` Joe Perches
2023-08-27 18:29         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-08-27 18:26       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-08-28  1:05 ` [PATCH v3] tpm: Enable hwrng only for Pluton on AMD CPUs Jerry Snitselaar
2023-08-29 19:03 ` Jerry Snitselaar
2023-08-30 18:25   ` Jerry Snitselaar
2023-09-04 20:51     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2023-09-04 18:12 ` [PATCH v4] " Jarkko Sakkinen

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