Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 6 authors, 2024-07-03

Re: [PATCH] tpm: ibmvtpm: Call tpm2_sessions_init() to initialize session support

From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2024-06-17 19:56:41
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On 6/17/24 15:42, James Bottomley wrote:
On Mon, 2024-06-17 at 15:34 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
quoted
Fix the following type of error message caused by a missing call to
tpm2_sessions_init() in the IBM vTPM driver:

[    2.987131] tpm tpm0: tpm2_load_context: failed with a TPM error
0x01C4
[    2.987140] ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip, result: -14

Fixes: d2add27cf2b8 ("tpm: Add NULL primary creation")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
---
  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c | 4 ++++
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
index d3989b257f42..1e5b107d1f3b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c
@@ -698,6 +698,10 @@ static int tpm_ibmvtpm_probe(struct vio_dev
*vio_dev,
                 rc = tpm2_get_cc_attrs_tbl(chip);
                 if (rc)
                         goto init_irq_cleanup;
+
+               rc = tpm2_sessions_init(chip);
+               if (rc)
+                       goto init_irq_cleanup;
This looks wrong: the whole thing is designed to occur in the bootstrap
phase from tpm_chip_register() (which tpm_ibmvtpm.c definitely calls),
so why isn't it happening?
Because flags = TPM_OPS_AUTO_STARTUP has not been set for this driver.
James
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