On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 04:11:25PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> Currently, the CCP driver assumes that the SEV command issued to the PSP
> will always return (i.e. it will never hang).  But recently, firmware bugs
> have shown that a command can hang.  Since of the SEV commands are used
> in probe routines, this can cause boot hangs and/or loss of virtualization
> capabilities.
> 
> To protect against firmware bugs, add a timeout in the SEV command
> execution flow.  If a command does not complete within the specified
> timeout then return -ETIMEOUT and stop the driver from executing any
> further commands since the state of the SEV firmware is unknown.
> 
> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
> Cc: Gary Hook <gary.h...@amd.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/ccp/psp-dev.c | 46 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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