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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] tpm: ibmvtpm: Wait for buffer to be set before
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To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
        Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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From:   Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
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On 2/25/20 11:57 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:23:27PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
>>
>> Synchronize with the results from the CRQs before continuing with
>> the initialization. This avoids trying to send TPM commands while
>> the rtce buffer has not been allocated, yet.
> What is CRQ anyway an acronym of?

Command request queue.


>
>> This patch fixes an existing race condition that may occurr if the
>> hypervisor does not quickly respond to the VTPM_GET_RTCE_BUFFER_SIZE
>> request sent during initialization and therefore the ibmvtpm->rtce_buf
>> has not been allocated at the time the first TPM command is sent.
> If it fixes a race condition, why doesn't it have a fixes tag?

Which commit should I mention?

   Stefan


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> /Jarkko