On Sat, 2021-01-30 at 19:15 +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 07:38:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 4:54 PM Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > This contains bug fixes for tpm_tis driver, which had a racy wait > > > for hardware state change to be ready to send a command to the > > > TPM chip. The bug has existed already since 2006, but has only > > > made itself known in recent past. > > > > Hmm. Is this for the next merge window? The subject line implies > > that, as does the addition of the cr50 driver. > > > > But the commentary about fixes implies that at least part of it > > should be in 5.11? > > This was meant for 5.12 but the timing was *way* too early. I'll take > this one back. Just to unambiguity reasons I'll use tpmdd-next-v5.12- > rc1-v2 tag for my final v5.12 PR, once I send it. > > I considered a bit, and I really think that it would make a lot of > sense to do a late 5.11 just containing the two commits from James, > namely: > > 1. tpm_tis: Fix check_locality for correct locality acquisition > 2. tpm_tis: Clean up locality release > > James: Does this make sense to you? Yes, that's fine with me. It will quiet the warning we've had several bug reports about, so it's definitely a bug fix. James
