On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 07:38:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 4:54 PM Jarkko Sakkinen [off-list ref] wrote:

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This contains bug fixes for tpm_tis driver, which had a racy wait for
hardware state change to be ready to send a command to the TPM chip. The
bug has existed already since 2006, but has only made itself known in
recent past.

Hmm. Is this for the next merge window? The subject line implies that,
as does the addition of the cr50 driver.

But the commentary about fixes implies that at least part of it should
be in 5.11?

This was meant for 5.12 but the timing was *way* too early. I'll take this
one back. Just to unambiguity reasons I'll use tpmdd-next-v5.12-rc1-v2 tag
for my final v5.12 PR, once I send it.

I considered a bit, and I really think that it would make a lot of sense
to do a late 5.11 just containing the two commits from James, namely:

1. tpm_tis: Fix check_locality for correct locality acquisition
2. tpm_tis: Clean up locality release 

James: Does this make sense to you? 

            Linus

/Jarkko