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From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To:     Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] tpm_tis: override durations for STM tpm with
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 05:46:21PM -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> There was revealed a bug in the STM TPM chipset used in Dell R415s.
> Bug is observed so far only on chipset firmware 1.2.8.28
> (1.2 TPM, device-id 0x0, rev-id 78). After some number of
> operations chipset hangs and stays in inconsistent state:
> 
> tpm_tis 00:09: Operation Timed out
> tpm_tis 00:09: tpm_transmit: tpm_send: error -5
> 
> Durations returned by the chip are the same like on other
> firmware revisions but apparently with specifically 1.2.8.28 fw
> durations should be reset to 2 minutes to enable tpm chip work
> properly. No working way of updating firmware was found.
> 
> This patch adds implementation of ->update_durations method
> that matches only STM devices with specific firmware version.
> 
> Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Klimov <aklimov@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>
> ---
> v2: Make suggested changes from Jarkko
>     - change struct field name to durations from durs
>     - formatting cleanups
>     - turn into void function like update_timeouts and
>       use chip->duration_adjusted to track whether adjustment occurred.

The code repetition looks horrible so I wrote a patch that should help:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11121475/

Read the remar that prepends the diffstat.

/Jarkko