Re: Getting weird TPM error after rebasing my tree to security/next-general

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 02:09:18PM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-01-18 at 16:25 +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > I get this on a Geminilake NUC after rebasing my maintainer trees:
> > 
> > tpm tpm0: A TPM error (-1) occurred attempting the self test
> > 
> > I checked the latest commit ID from drivers/char/tpm to make sure
> > that I did not put anything broken to my last PR [1]. It works
> > without issues.
> > 
> > In addition [2] gives me an empty diff.
> > 
> > Something outside of the TPM driver must have happened that breaks
> > the driver. Any ideas?
> > 
> > [1] commit 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7
> > [2] git diff 9488585b21bef0df1217e510c7134905d1d376a7 master
> > drivers/char/tpm/
> 
> I'm afraid you're going to have to bisect to find the offending in-
> kernel commit, which is going to be painful since it seems to depend on
> physical hardware.  My first instinct is that we're getting a zero
> length read somewhere, but I still can't see anything in the merge
> window that would cause that behaviour.

Yeah, I've started to bisect it (still 9 rounds to go).

/Jarkko



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