On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:15:44AM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
>    Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]> wrote on 02/09/2016
>    10:56:20 PM:
> 
>    >
>    > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 09:52:28AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>    > > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:19:15AM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
>    > > > Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]> wrote on 02/
>    > 09/2016 12:33:23
>    > > > AM:
>    > > >
>    > > >
>    > > > >
>    > > > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 02:27:07PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
>    > > > > > Add the retrieval of TPM 1.2 durations and timeouts. Since
>    > this requires
>    > > > > > the startup of the TPM, do this for TPM 1.2 and TPM 2.
>    > > > > >
>    > > > > > To not allow to interleave with commands from user space, so
>    send the
>    > > > > > TPM_Startup as the first command. The timeouts can then be
>    > gotten at any
>    > > > > > later time, even interleaved with commands from user space.
>    > > > >
>    > > > > Do not call tpm_register until get_timeouts has completed and this
>    > > > > will naturally be avoided the same way every other TPM driver
>    does.
>    > > >
>    > > > Getting the timeouts cannot complete before the TPM emulator has
>    > started, which
>    > > > in turn cannot start before the ioctl returns. We don't know
>    > whether user space
>    > > > starts a client first on /dev/tpm1 or the TPM emulator starts
>    > first on the file
>    > > > descriptor. We can control which command gets *queued* for the
>    > TPM emulator and
>    > > > that's what I am doing by having the kernel queue the startup
>    > command first.
>    > >
>    > > I keep saying this same solution - start a work queue just before the
>    > > ioctl returns and do the get_timeouts and registration in there.
>    >
>    > *Maybe* it would be worth to check David's patch:
>    >
>    > https://github.com/PeterHuewe/linux-tpmdd/commit/
>    > 9329f13c403daf1f4bd1e715d2ba0866e089fb1d
> 
>    Redid that now.
> 
>    
> https://github.com/stefanberger/linux/commit/83019eaab2cf5eb33f2665efdf9d2a117ed703b2

With very quick skim looks very similar, which is good because this
approach is tested and known to work thanks to David.

/Jarkko

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