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

