On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:58:03PM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
>> Backport of d1bd4a792d3961a04e6154118816b00167aad91a upstream.
>>
>> If a TPM2 loses power without a TPM2_Shutdown command being issued (a
>> "disorderly reboot"), it may lose some state that has yet to be
>> persisted to NVRam, and will increment the DA counter. After the DA
>> counter gets sufficiently large, the TPM will lock the user out.
>>
>> NOTE: This only changes behavior on TPM2 devices. Since TPM1 uses sysfs,
>> and sysfs relies on implicit locking on chip->ops, it is not safe to
>> allow this code to run in TPM1, or to add sysfs support to TPM2, until
>> that locking is made explicit.
>> ---
>>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c  | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c |  7 +++++++
>>  2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
>>
>
> Again no signed-off-by :(

Oops, sorry about that.

Did you pull in the two cherry-picks as well? They're needed for these
two to build and merge cleanly.

I can send a v2 if you need with a corrected signed-off-by and correct
number of patches in the cover letter.

Josh

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
_______________________________________________
tpmdd-devel mailing list
tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tpmdd-devel

Reply via email to