Avoid allocating memory and reading the host log when a virtual device
is used since this log is of no use to that driver. A virtual
device can be identified through the flag TPM_CHIP_FLAG_VIRTUAL, which
is only set for the tpm_vtpm_proxy driver.
Fixes: 6f99612e2500 ("tpm: Proxy driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/common.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/common.c b/drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/common.c
index 7460f230bae4..8512ec76d526 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/common.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/eventlog/common.c
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ void tpm_bios_log_setup(struct tpm_chip *chip)
int log_version;
int rc = 0;
+ if (chip->flags & TPM_CHIP_FLAG_VIRTUAL)
+ return;
+
rc = tpm_read_log(chip);
if (rc < 0)
return;
--
2.29.2
