On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 06:15:20PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote: > >>Further, I had the impression that the error unwinding following -ENODEV has > >>an issue related to sysfs. > >I don't follow this comment.. > > I have encountered this error here, which gets masked when applying the > previously shown patch.
If tpm_chip_register fails vtpm must not call tpm_chip_unregister: > [ 58.271017] [<ffffffff8155bd32>] dpm_sysfs_remove+0x22/0x60 > [ 58.271017] [<ffffffff8154e438>] device_del+0x58/0x280 > [ 58.271017] [<ffffffffa024c020>] tpm_chip_unregister+0x40/0xb0 [tpm] > [ 58.271017] [<ffffffffa0292360>] vtpm_proxy_fops_release+0x40/0x60 > [tpm_vtpm_proxy] So, this is a vtpm thing I missed for 'tpm: Get rid of TPM_CHIP_FLAG_REGISTERED' Does this do the trick? diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.c index 3d6f6ca81def75..d3a41f9d65c85c 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.c @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ struct proxy_dev { long state; /* internal state */ #define STATE_OPENED_FLAG BIT(0) #define STATE_WAIT_RESPONSE_FLAG BIT(1) /* waiting for emulator response */ +#define STATE_REGISTERED_FLAG BIT(2) size_t req_len; /* length of queued TPM request */ size_t resp_len; /* length of queued TPM response */ @@ -372,6 +373,7 @@ static void vtpm_proxy_work(struct work_struct *work) if (rc) goto err; + proxy_dev->state |= STATE_REGISTERED_FLAG; return; err: @@ -516,7 +518,8 @@ static void vtpm_proxy_delete_device(struct proxy_dev *proxy_dev) */ vtpm_proxy_fops_undo_open(proxy_dev); - tpm_chip_unregister(proxy_dev->chip); + if (proxy_dev->state & STATE_REGISTERED_FLAG) + tpm_chip_unregister(proxy_dev->chip); vtpm_proxy_delete_proxy_dev(proxy_dev); } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ tpmdd-devel mailing list tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tpmdd-devel