linux/drivers/char
Peter Huewe abce9ac292 tpm: Propagate error from tpm_transmit to fix a timeout hang
tpm_write calls tpm_transmit without checking the return value and
assigns the return value unconditionally to chip->pending_data, even if
it's an error value.
This causes three bugs.

So if we write to /dev/tpm0 with a tpm_param_size bigger than
TPM_BUFSIZE=0x1000 (e.g. 0x100a)
and a bufsize also bigger than TPM_BUFSIZE (e.g. 0x100a)
tpm_transmit returns -E2BIG which is assigned to chip->pending_data as
-7, but tpm_write returns that TPM_BUFSIZE bytes have been successfully
been written to the TPM, altough this is not true (bug #1).

As we did write more than than TPM_BUFSIZE bytes but tpm_write reports
that only TPM_BUFSIZE bytes have been written the vfs tries to write
the remaining bytes (in this case 10 bytes) to the tpm device driver via
tpm_write which then blocks at

 /* cannot perform a write until the read has cleared
 either via tpm_read or a user_read_timer timeout */
 while (atomic_read(&chip->data_pending) != 0)
	 msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT);

for 60 seconds, since data_pending is -7 and nobody is able to
read it (since tpm_read luckily checks if data_pending is greater than
0) (#bug 2).

After that the remaining bytes are written to the TPM which are
interpreted by the tpm as a normal command. (bug #3)
So if the last bytes of the command stream happen to be a e.g.
tpm_force_clear this gets accidentally sent to the TPM.

This patch fixes all three bugs, by propagating the error code of
tpm_write and returning -E2BIG if the input buffer is too big,
since the response from the tpm for a truncated value is bogus anyway.
Moreover it returns -EBUSY to userspace if there is a response ready to be
read.

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peter.huewe@infineon.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-10-10 11:34:31 -05:00
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agp drm/i915: fix hsw uncached pte 2012-08-17 09:21:35 +02:00
hw_random hw_random: add support for the TPM chip as a hardware RNG source 2012-08-22 11:11:41 -05:00
ipmi char/ipmi: remove local ioctl defines replaced by generic ones 2012-07-23 12:48:04 +02:00
mwave Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
pcmcia Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
tpm tpm: Propagate error from tpm_transmit to fix a timeout hang 2012-10-10 11:34:31 -05:00
xilinx_hwicap xilinx_hwicap: reset XHI_MAX_RETRIES 2012-04-19 19:09:18 -07:00
apm-emulation.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/apm 2012-04-05 17:34:30 -07:00
applicom.c drivers/char/applicom.c: fix information leak to userland 2010-10-27 18:03:14 -07:00
applicom.h
bfin-otp.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
bsr.c powerpc/BSR: cleanup the error path of bsr_init 2012-07-17 10:27:38 -07:00
ds1302.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
ds1620.c Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
dsp56k.c Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
dtlk.c Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
efirtc.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
generic_nvram.c drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations 2011-07-20 20:47:58 -04:00
genrtc.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
hangcheck-timer.c
hpet.c printk(): add KERN_CONT where needed in hpet and vt code 2012-04-09 10:30:39 -07:00
i8k.c module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc) 2012-01-13 09:32:20 +10:30
Kconfig ramoops: Move to fs/pstore/ram.c 2012-05-16 08:06:37 -07:00
lp.c Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
Makefile ramoops: Move to fs/pstore/ram.c 2012-05-16 08:06:37 -07:00
mbcs.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
mbcs.h Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
mem.c powerpc: Disable /dev/port interface on systems without an ISA bridge 2012-07-11 18:22:32 +10:00
misc.c switch device_get_devnode() and ->devnode() to umode_t * 2012-01-03 22:54:55 -05:00
mmtimer.c posix-timers: Cleanup namespace 2011-02-02 15:28:19 +01:00
msm_smd_pkt.c drivers/char/msm_smd_pkt.c: don't use IS_ERR() 2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
mspec.c [IA64] Redefine ATOMIC_INIT and ATOMIC64_INIT to drop the casts 2012-07-26 10:55:26 -07:00
nsc_gpio.c
nvram.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
nwbutton.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
nwbutton.h
nwflash.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
pc8736x_gpio.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
ppdev.c drivers/char/ppdev.c: put gotten port value 2011-05-26 17:12:37 -07:00
ps3flash.c drivers/char: Add module.h to those who were using it implicitly 2011-10-31 19:31:40 -04:00
random.c random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf() 2012-07-27 22:37:20 -04:00
raw.c switch device_get_devnode() and ->devnode() to umode_t * 2012-01-03 22:54:55 -05:00
rtc.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
scx200_gpio.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
snsc.c Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
snsc.h headers: kobject.h redux 2011-01-10 08:51:44 -08:00
snsc_event.c
sonypi.c sonypi: Use struct dev_pm_ops for power management 2012-07-01 13:31:14 +02:00
tb0219.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
tile-srom.c tile-srom.c driver: minor code cleanup 2012-04-02 12:14:10 -04:00
tlclk.c char: Fix typo in tlclk.c 2012-02-09 23:09:37 +01:00
toshiba.c Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl 2010-10-22 10:52:56 -07:00
ttyprintk.c TTY: remove re-assignments to tty_driver members 2012-03-08 11:37:58 -08:00
uv_mmtimer.c BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> 2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00
virtio_console.c virtio: console: tell host of open ports after resume from s3/s4 2012-05-17 12:14:33 +03:00