Re: [PATCH] tpm: self test failure should not cause suspend to fail

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On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 15:36 +0800, Daniel Drake wrote:
> From: Chris Chiu <chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The Acer Acer Veriton X4110G has a TPM device detected as:
>   tpm_tis 00:0b: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0xFE, rev-id 71)
> 
> After the first S3 suspend, the following error appears during resume:
>   tpm tpm0: A TPM error(38) occured continue selftest
> 
> Any following S3 suspend attempts will now fail with this error:
>   tpm tpm0: Error (38) sending savestate before suspend
>   PM: Device 00:0b failed to suspend: error 38
> 
> Error 38 is TPM_ERR_INVALID_POSTINIT which means the TPM is
> not in the correct state. This indicates that the platform BIOS
> is not sending the usual TPM_Startup command during S3 resume.
> From this point onwards, all TPM commands will fail.
> 
> The same issue was previously reported on Foxconn 6150BK8MC and
> Sony Vaio TX3.
> 
> The platform behaviour seems broken here, but we should not break
> suspend/resume because of this.
> 
> When the unexpected TPM state is encountered, set a flag to skip the
> affected TPM_SaveState command on later suspends.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Chiu <chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAB4CAwfSCvj1cudi+MWaB5g2Z67d9DwY1o475YOZD64ma2
> 3UiQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/28/192
> Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591031

Thank you.

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

/Jarkko



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