On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<[email protected]> 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.
>
>> > I think the original patch got a bit stuck on exactly how to do this,
>> > but yes, somehow the common shutdown method is called. Either from the
>> > driver core (preferred, IHMO) or via patching every single TPM driver.
>>
>> I think the original thread was leaning towards (and I agree with)
>> moving it into the core. Just to make sure I'm understanding the code
>> structure correctly, tpm-chip.c is part of that core and a reasonable
>> place for shared functionality, correct?
>
> Yes..
>
> But I went I said driver core, I ment by adding tpm_class->shutdown
> that is called by drivers/base/... 'or something like that'
>
> The trouble is how to consistently get the machine shutdown callback
> from the driver core.

It is not particularly clear what you mean here.  Care to elaborate?

Thanks,
Rafael

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