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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: "Michael Niewöhner" <linux@mniewoehner.de>
Cc: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>,
	peterhuewe@gmx.de, jgg@ziepe.ca, stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	stefanb@linux.ibm.com, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
	keescook@chromium.org, jsnitsel@redhat.com,
	ml.linux@elloe.vision, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, twawrzynczak@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Fixes for TPM interrupt handling
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 04:14:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yj0lhqTP1RoedxSc@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a1a1cf61732eff1608aeae74054a0c135c1671f.camel@mniewoehner.de>

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 06:04:23PM +0100, Michael Niewöhner wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 04:47 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 01:15:29AM +0200, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On 03.05.21 at 17:50, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > What the heck is "simplification" and what that has to do with fixing
> > > > anything? I don't understand your terminology.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The intention for this patch is not to fix anything. Please read the cover
> > > letter and the commit message.
> > > This patch is about making the locality handling easier by not
> > > claiming/releasing
> > > it multiple times over the driver life time, but claiming it once at driver
> > > startup and only releasing it at driver shutdown.
> > > 
> > > Right now we have locality request/release combos in
> > > 
> > > - probe_itpm()
> > > - tpm_tis_gen_interrupt()
> > > - tpm_tis_core_init()
> > > - tpm_chip_start()
> > > 
> > > and there is still one combo missing for
> > > 
> > > - tpm2_get_timeouts()
> > > 
> > > which is the reason why we get the "TPM returned invalid status" bug in case
> > > of TPM2 (and this is the bug which is _incidentally_ fixed by this patch,
> > > see
> > > below).
> > > 
> > > And if we are going to enable interrupts, we have to introduce yet another
> > > combo,
> > > for accessing the status register in the interrupt handler, since TPM 2.0
> > > requires holding the locality for writing to the status register. That makes
> > > 6 different code places in which we take and release the locality.
> > > 
> > > With this patch applied we only take the locality at one place. Furthermore
> > > with interrupts enabled we dont have to claim the locality for each handler
> > > execution, saving us countless claim/release combinations at runtime.
> > > 
> > > Hence the term "simplification" which is perfectly justified IMO.
> > > 
> > > So again, this patch is "only" in preparation for the next patch when
> > > interrupts
> > > are actually enabled and we would have to take the locality in the interrupt
> > > handler without this patch.
> > 
> > So: what problem this patch does solve?
> > 
> > /Jarkko
> > 
> 
> first, thank you very much, Lino, for working on this! I've been debugging
> issues with the tis driver in the last days and was about to start with the same
> approach as yours when I luckily discovered your patch!
> 
> Jarkko, while I agree, that the commit message is not optimal, Lino tried hard
> to explain what the problems with the current code are and how they are / can be
> fixed. Further, I too don't see why simplification / optimization is such a bad
> thing. This driver is actually a very good example. I had a hard time, too,
> figuring out what's going on there. A clean rewrite is a very valid approach
> here IMO. It's not "polishing for nothing", as you described it, but actually
> solving problems.
> 
> Interrupt detection is broken for years now and finally a volunteer worked on a
> solution. Don't you think this should be valued? Let's get this problem sorted
> out :-)
> 
> Lino, I'd be happy to test the patches, when you have time and interest to work
> on this again!
> 
> Thanks, Michael

It's quite easy to test them out. Both fixes are in the mainline GIT tree.
E.g. give a shot rc1, and please report if any issues persists to:

  linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org 

BR, Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-25  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-01 13:57 [PATCH v3 0/4] Fixes for TPM interrupt handling Lino Sanfilippo
2021-05-01 13:57 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] tpm: Use a threaded interrupt handler Lino Sanfilippo
2021-05-03 15:14   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-05-04 22:54     ` Lino Sanfilippo
2021-05-06  1:46       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-05-01 13:57 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] tpm: Simplify locality handling Lino Sanfilippo
2021-05-03 15:50   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-05-04 23:15     ` Lino Sanfilippo
2021-05-06  1:47       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-03-24 17:04         ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Fixes for TPM interrupt handling Michael Niewöhner
2022-03-25  2:14           ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2022-03-25 12:32             ` Michael Niewöhner
2022-03-26  3:24               ` Lino Sanfilippo
2022-03-26  8:59                 ` Michael Niewöhner
2022-03-30 15:19                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-04-20  5:30                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-04-20  5:32                   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-04-24  2:22                   ` Lino Sanfilippo
2022-04-25 13:57                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-03-30 15:18               ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-05-01 13:57 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] tpm: Fix test for interrupts Lino Sanfilippo
2021-05-03 15:52   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-05-04 23:18     ` Lino Sanfilippo
2021-05-01 13:57 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] tpm: Only enable supported irqs Lino Sanfilippo
2021-05-01 19:09   ` Stefan Berger
2021-05-02  3:15     ` Lino Sanfilippo
2021-05-03 15:52   ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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