An unexpected status from TPM chip is not irrecovable failure of the kernel. It's only undesirable situation. Thus, change the WARN_ONCE() instance inside tpm_tis_status() to dev_warn_once(). In addition: print the status in the log message because it is actually useful information lacking from the existing log message. Suggested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 6f4f57f0b909 ("tpm: ibmvtpm: fix error return code in tpm_ibmvtpm_probe()") Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: - Use dev_warn_once() instead of pr_warn_once(), as suggested by Jason. drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c index 431919d5f48a..22b6c751c33a 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static u8 tpm_tis_status(struct tpm_chip *chip) * acquired. Usually because tpm_try_get_ops() hasn't * been called before doing a TPM operation. */ - WARN_ONCE(1, "TPM returned invalid status\n"); + dev_warn_once(&chip->dev, "TPM returned invalid status: 0x%x\n", status); return 0; } -- 2.30.0