Functionality of the xen-tpmfront driver was lost secondary to
the introduction of xenbus multi-page support in the following
commit:
ccc9d90a9a8b5c4ad7e9708ec41f75ff9e98d61d
xenbus_client: Extend interface to support multi-page ring
In this commit a pointer to the shared page address was being
passed to the xenbus_grant_ring() function rather then the
address of the shared page itself. This resulted in a situation
where the driver would attach to the vtpm-stubdom but any attempt
to send a command to the stub domain would timeout.
A diagnostic finding for this regression is the following error
message being generated when the xen-tpmfront driver probes for a
device:
<3>vtpm vtpm-0: tpm_transmit: tpm_send: error -62
<3>vtpm vtpm-0: A TPM error (-62) occurred attempting to determine the timeouts
This fix is relevant to all kernels from 4.1 forward which is the
release in which multi-page xenbus support was introduced.
Daniel De Graaf formulated the fix by code inspection after the
regression point was located.
Signed-off-by: Dr. Greg Wettstein <[email protected]>
---
drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c b/drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c
index 5aaa268..dd83a07 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static int setup_ring(struct xenbus_device *dev, struct tpm_private *priv)
return -ENOMEM;
}
- rv = xenbus_grant_ring(dev, &priv->shr, 1, &gref);
+ rv = xenbus_grant_ring(dev, priv->shr, 1, &gref);
if (rv < 0)
return rv;
--
2.2.2
--
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 02:41:52PM -0600, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote:
> Functionality of the xen-tpmfront driver was lost secondary to
> the introduction of xenbus multi-page support in the following
> commit:
>
> ccc9d90a9a8b5c4ad7e9708ec41f75ff9e98d61d
>
> xenbus_client: Extend interface to support multi-page ring
>
> In this commit a pointer to the shared page address was being
> passed to the xenbus_grant_ring() function rather then the
> address of the shared page itself. This resulted in a situation
> where the driver would attach to the vtpm-stubdom but any attempt
> to send a command to the stub domain would timeout.
>
> A diagnostic finding for this regression is the following error
> message being generated when the xen-tpmfront driver probes for a
> device:
>
> <3>vtpm vtpm-0: tpm_transmit: tpm_send: error -62
>
> <3>vtpm vtpm-0: A TPM error (-62) occurred attempting to determine the timeouts
>
> This fix is relevant to all kernels from 4.1 forward which is the
> release in which multi-page xenbus support was introduced.
>
> Daniel De Graaf formulated the fix by code inspection after the
> regression point was located.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dr. Greg Wettstein <[email protected]>
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