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.
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # 4.1-
Suggested-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgde...@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Dr. Greg Wettstein <g...@enjellic.com>
---
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 3111f2778079..d1478f7b3f97 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ 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;
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2.11.0
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