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From:   Guenter Roeck <groeck@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:38:00 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: avoid accessing cleared ops during shutdown
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc:     Andrey Pronin <apronin@chromium.org>,
        Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:28 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
<jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 08:48:38AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 4:32 AM Jarkko Sakkinen
> > <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:25:44AM -0700, Andrey Pronin wrote:
> > > > > Why does not tpm_del_char_device need this?
> > > >
> > > > "Not" is a typo in the sentence above, right? tpm_del_char_device *does*
> > > > need the fix. When tpm_class_shutdown is called it sets chip->ops to
> > > > NULL. If tpm_del_char_device is called after that, it doesn't check if
> > > > chip->ops is NULL (normal kernel API and char device API calls go
> > > > through tpm_try_get_ops, but tpm_del_char_device doesn't) and proceeds to
> > > > call tpm2_shutdown(), which tries sending the command and dereferences
> > > > chip->ops.
> > >
> > > It's a typo, yes. Sorry about that.
> > >
> > > tpm_class_shutdown() is essentially tail of tpm_del_char_device().
> > >
> > > To clean things up, I'd suggest dropping tpm_del_char_device() and
> > > call tpm_class_shutdown() in tpm_chip_unregisters() along, and open
> > > coding things that prepend it in tpm_del_char_device().
> > >
> >
> > Personally I would have preferred two separate patches, one to fix the
> > immediate problem (with Cc: stable) and one for the cleanup, but I
> > guess merging both into one is ok as long as it is marked for stable.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Guenter
>
> Not sure about stable as this issue does not afaik concern earlier
> kernel versions?
>

I just had a quick look into linux-5.4.y, and it seemed to me that it
is affected. Maybe I am wrong. Either case, we already applied this
patch to all affected ChromeOS kernel branches, so from our
perspective it doesn't really matter.

Thanks,
Guenter