Dear Alexander, dear Mimi,


On 12/22/17 15:00, Alexander.Steffen@infineon.com wrote:

>> On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 13:54 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
>>> Dear Jason,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/08/17 17:18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have no access to the system right now, but want to point out, that the
>>>>> log was created by `journactl -k`, so I do not know if that messes with
>> the
>>>>> time stamps. I checked the output of `dmesg` but didn’t see the TPM
>> error
>>>>> messages in the output – only `tpm_tis MSFT0101:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id
>> 0xFE,
>>>>> rev-id 4)`. Do I need to pass a different error message to `dmesg`?
>>>>
>>>> It is a good question, I don't know.. If your kernel isn't setup to
>>>> timestamp messages then the journalstamp will certainly be garbage.
>>>>
>>>> No idea why you wouldn't see the messages in dmesg, if they are not in
>>>> dmesg they couldn't get into the journal
>>>
>>> It looks like I was running an older Linux kernel version, when running
>>> `dmesg`. Sorry for the noise. Here are the messages with the Linux
>>> kernel time stamps, showing that the delays work correctly.
>>>
>>> ```
>>> $ uname -a
>>> Linux Ixpees 4.15.0-041500rc2-generic #201712031230 SMP Sun Dec 3
>>> 17:32:03 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>> $ sudo dmesg | grep TPM
>>> [    0.000000] ACPI: TPM2 0x000000006F332168 000034 (v03        Tpm2Tabl
>>> 00000001 AMI  00000000)
>>> [    1.114355] tpm_tis MSFT0101:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0xFE, rev-id 4)
>>> [    1.125250] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
>>> [    1.156645] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
>>> [    1.208053] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
>>> [    1.299640] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
>>> [    1.471223] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
>>> [    1.802819] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
>>> [    2.454320] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred continue selftest
>>> [    3.734808] tpm tpm0: TPM self test failed
>>> [    3.759675] ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass! (rc=-19)
>>> ```
>>
>> I've sort of been following this thread, but just want to make sure
>> that once the self test is/was fixed, that you aren't seeing the IMA
>> message.
>>
>> Assuming this is fixed, could someone provide the commit that fixes
>> it?
> 
> I don't think we've found a solution yet.

Correct, it’s not fixed yet to my knowledge.

> There might be a firmware  upgrade that changes that TPM's behavior.

Indeed, but I am unable to update without loosing the support from Dell. 
Maybe some Dell XPS 13 9630 user is able to test the TPM functionality 
over the holidays.

> Or maybe my latest patch helps? https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10130535/

I’ll only have access to the device in the next year.


Kind regards,

Paul