On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 04:48:39PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 11:14:10PM -0600, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 08:49:42PM -0400, Nayna Jain wrote: > > > Currently, the event log file operations are not serialized with > > > tpm_chip_unregister(), which can possibly cause a race condition. > > > > > > This patch fixes the race condition by: > > > - moving read_log() from fops to chip register. > > > > What is "chip register"? Please use exact names. > > > > > - disallowing event log file operations when chip unregister is in > > > progress. > > > > Could you elaborate this sentence? > > > > > - guarding event log memory using chip krefs. > > > > Could you elaborate this sentence? > > > > Please describe how the race condition could happen and provide the > > "Fixes:" line for the commit ID that caused it. Otherwise, your commit > > message won't make any sense. I cannot apply this commit with this > > commit message. > > > > The commit message does not make much sense... > > Lets get this moving along, it is hard to keep everything straight > over months.. > > Nayna: This commit message should work: > > tpm: Have eventlog use the tpm_chip > > Move the backing memory for the eventlog into tpm_chip and push > the tpm_chip into read_log. This optimizes read_log processing by > only doing it once and prepares things for the next patches in the > series which require the tpm_chip to locate the event log via > ACPI and OF handles instead of searching. > > This is straightfoward except for the issue of passing a kref through > i_private with securityfs. Since securityfs_remove does not have any > removal fencing like sysfs we use the inode lock to safely get a > kref on the tpm_chip.
Perfect. Thank you. With this Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakki...@linux.intel.com> No need for resend. /Jarkko ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ tpmdd-devel mailing list tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tpmdd-devel
