On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 09:16:19AM +0800, Pei Xiao wrote:
> This series fixes several small issues found during a code review of
> drivers/char/tpm:
> 
>   1. tpm_ppi: tpm_show_ppi_response() stores its return value in an
>      acpi_status (a u32 typedef), so error codes such as -EINVAL reach
>      user space as huge positive values.  Declare the variable as
>      ssize_t to match the show callback's return type.
> 
>   2. tpm_nsc: tpm_nsc_remove() doubles as the release callback of the
>      hand-created platform device and dereferences the chip drvdata
>      unconditionally; init failures before tpmm_chip_alloc() crash
>      module load.  Return early when the chip has not been created.
> 
>   3. tpm_nsc: the cleanup runs twice on module exit because
>      tpm_nsc_remove() is both the explicit cleanup and the device
>      release callback; the second run operates on an already freed
>      chip.  Stop overriding the release callback, which also stops the
>      platform object allocation from leaking.
> 
>   4. tpm_dev: a zero-length read() discards a pending response,
>      breaking the command/response pairing of the TPM character
>      devices, although POSIX requires zero-count reads to have no side
>      effects.  Return early on a zero count.
> 
> chhanges in v2:
> 1.add reviewed-by tag
> 2.remove patch 5: 
> make the tpm_init() error messages consistently prefixed with "tpm: " and
> report the actual failure of tpm_dev_common_init().
> 3.modify patch 1 git commit information.
> 
> Pei Xiao (4):
>   tpm: tpm_ppi: fix zero-extension of negative error codes
>   tpm: tpm_nsc: fix NULL pointer dereference on init failure
>   tpm: tpm_nsc: stop using the cleanup callback as dev.release
>   tpm: fix zero-length read discarding the pending response
> 
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c | 3 +++
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c        | 8 ++++++--
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ppi.c        | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

Right, so I've already applied some of the patches so I'm a bit 
confused what to do with this.

See:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd.git/log/

Is there something wrong in the ones that I already applied?

Br, Jarkko

Reply via email to