On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 10:51 -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 16:38 +0300, Sergey Temerkhanov wrote: > > Avoid race condition at shutdown by shutting downn the TPM 2.0 > > devices synchronously. This eliminates the condition when the > > shutdown sequence sets chip->ops to NULL leading to the following: > > > > [ 1586.593561][ T8669] tpm2_del_space+0x28/0x73 > > [ 1586.598718][ T8669] tpmrm_release+0x27/0x33wq > > [ 1586.603774][ T8669] __fput+0x109/0x1d > > [ 1586.608380][ T8669] task_work_run+0x7c/0x90 > > [ 1586.613414][ T8669] prepare_exit_to_usermode+0xb8/0x128 > > [ 1586.619522][ T8669] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 > > [ 1586.626068][ T8669] RIP: 0033:0x4cb4bb > > An actual bug report would have been helpful. However, from this > trace it's easy to deduce that tpm2_del_space() didn't get converted > to the get/put of the chip ops ... it's still trying to do its own > half arsed thing with tpm_chip_start() and the mutex. So isn't a > much simpler fix simply to convert it as below? compile tested only, > but if you can test it out I'll send a proper patch. I got this booted and running here, so I know it works. What I still need to know is does it fix your problem? James