Commit 933bfc5ad213 introduced the use of a locality counter to control when a
locality request is allowed to be sent to the TPM. In the commit, the counter
is indiscriminately decremented. Thus creating a situation for an integer
underflow of the counter.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Smith <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Kanth Ghatraju <[email protected]>
Fixes: 933bfc5ad213 ("tpm, tpm: Implement usage counter for locality")
---
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
index 1b350412d8a6..4176d3bd1f04 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ static int tpm_tis_relinquish_locality(struct tpm_chip 
*chip, int l)
        struct tpm_tis_data *priv = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
 
        mutex_lock(&priv->locality_count_mutex);
-       priv->locality_count--;
+       if (priv->locality_count > 0)
+               priv->locality_count--;
        if (priv->locality_count == 0)
                __tpm_tis_relinquish_locality(priv, l);
        mutex_unlock(&priv->locality_count_mutex);
-- 
2.30.2


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