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Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 05:42:25 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To:     Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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        Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>,
        Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com>,
        George Wilson <gcwilson@linux.ibm.com>,
        Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: ibmvtpm: Avoid error message when process gets
 signal while waiting
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 12:25:05PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> When rngd is run as root then lots of these types of message will appear
> in the kernel log if the TPM has been configure to provide random bytes:
> 
> [ 7406.275163] tpm tpm0: tpm_transmit: tpm_recv: error -4
> 
> The issue is caused by the following call that is interrupted while
> waiting for the TPM's response.
> 
> sig = wait_event_interruptible(ibmvtpm->wq,
>                                !ibmvtpm->tpm_processing_cmd);
> 
> The solution is to use wait_event() instead.

Why?

/Jarkko