On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 03:39:05PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 02:32:31PM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Jason Gunthorpe
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:27:16AM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
> > >> It sounds like there are several intertwined issues here. I'd like to
> > >> keep this patch relatively minimal, so here are my current thoughts on
> > >> a path forward:
> > >>
> > >> * Refactor references to chip->ops to go through tpm_try_get_ops, as
> > >> mentioned in the previous patch
> > >
> > > As I said, if you rely on the fact that sysfs does not exist for TPM2
> > > then this should already be done for the TPM2 case and an incremental
> > > later patch could solve this problem in sysfs to turn shutdown on for
> > > tpm1. As long as this logic is clearly documented it is probably an OK
> > > step for now.
> > 
> > This I'm not actually sure about: it seems that there are other places
> > than sysfs where chip->ops is referenced without being guarded by
> > tpm_try_get_ops. If we rely on just NULLing out chip->ops this could
> > be dangerous.  I'll look at sending a patch for this first.
> 
> If that is the case then we have an existing bug..
> 
> The only other user entry point is via the cdev, and those call
> try_get_ops around all calls down into the tpm code.
> 
> Everything coming in via the kapi must call tpm_chip_find_get, which
> does try_get_ops.

See the comment in tpm_sysfs_add_device. 

/Jarkko

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