On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 09:40:28PM -0700, Hao Wu wrote:
> The Atmel TPM 1.2 chips crash with error
> `tpm_try_transmit: send(): error -62` since kernel 4.14.
> It is observed from the kernel log after running `tpm_sealdata -z`.
> The error thrown from the command is as follows
> ```
> $ tpm_sealdata -z
> Tspi_Key_LoadKey failed: 0x00001087 - layer=tddl,
> code=0087 (135), I/O error
> ```
>
> The issue was reproduced with the following Atmel TPM chip:
> ```
> $ tpm_version
> T0 TPM 1.2 Version Info:
> Chip Version: 1.2.66.1
> Spec Level: 2
> Errata Revision: 3
> TPM Vendor ID: ATML
> TPM Version: 01010000
> Manufacturer Info: 41544d4c
> ```
>
> The root cause of the issue is due to the TPM calls to msleep()
> were replaced with usleep_range() [1], which reduces
> the actual timeout. Via experiments, it is observed that
> the original msleep(5) actually sleeps for 15ms.
> Because of a known timeout issue in Atmel TPM 1.2 chip,
> the shorter timeout than 15ms can cause the error described above.
>
> A few further changes in kernel 4.16 [2] and 4.18 [3, 4] further
> reduced the timeout to less than 1ms. With experiments,
> the problematic timeout in the latest kernel is the one
> for `wait_for_tpm_stat`.
>
> To fix it, the patch reverts the timeout of `wait_for_tpm_stat`
> to 15ms for all Atmel TPM 1.2 chips, but leave it untouched
> for Ateml TPM 2.0 chip, and chips from other vendors.
> As explained above, the chosen 15ms timeout is
> the actual timeout before this issue introduced,
> thus the old value is used here.
> Particularly, TPM_ATML_TIMEOUT_WAIT_STAT_MIN is set to 14700us,
> TPM_ATML_TIMEOUT_WAIT_STAT_MIN is set to 15000us according to
> the existing TPM_TIMEOUT_RANGE_US (300us).
> The fixed has been tested in the system with the affected Atmel chip
> with no issues observed after boot up.
>
> References:
> [1] 9f3fc7bcddcb tpm: replace msleep() with usleep_range() in TPM
> 1.2/2.0 generic drivers
> [2] cf151a9a44d5 tpm: reduce tpm polling delay in tpm_tis_core
> [3] 59f5a6b07f64 tpm: reduce poll sleep time in tpm_transmit()
> [4] 424eaf910c32 tpm: reduce polling time to usecs for even finer
> granularity
>
> Fixes: 9f3fc7bcddcb ("tpm: replace msleep() with usleep_range() in TPM 1.2/2.0 generic drivers")
> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-integrity/patch/20200926223150.109645-1-hao.wu@xxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Hao Wu <hao.wu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This version (v2) has following changes on top of the last (v1):
> - follow the existing way to define two timeouts (min and max)
> for ATMEL chip, thus keep the exact timeout logic for
> non-ATEML chips.
> - limit the timeout increase to only ATMEL TPM 1.2 chips,
> because it is not an issue for TPM 2.0 chips yet.
>
> Test Plan:
> - Run fixed kernel with ATMEL TPM chips and see crash has been fixed.
> - Run fixed kernel with non-ATMEL TPM chips, and confirm
> the timeout has not been changed.
>
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h | 6 ++++--
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
> include/linux/tpm.h | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> index 283f78211c3a..6de1b44c4aab 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> @@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ enum tpm_timeout {
> TPM_TIMEOUT_RETRY = 100, /* msecs */
> TPM_TIMEOUT_RANGE_US = 300, /* usecs */
> TPM_TIMEOUT_POLL = 1, /* msecs */
> - TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MIN = 100, /* usecs */
> - TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MAX = 500 /* usecs */
> + TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MIN = 100, /* usecs */
> + TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MAX = 500, /* usecs */
> + TPM_ATML_TIMEOUT_WAIT_STAT_MIN = 14700, /* usecs */
> + TPM_ATML_TIMEOUT_WAIT_STAT_MAX = 15000 /* usecs */
> };
>
> /* TPM addresses */
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
> index 55b9d3965ae1..ae27d66fdd94 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c
> @@ -80,8 +80,17 @@ static int wait_for_tpm_stat(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 mask,
> }
> } else {
> do {
> - usleep_range(TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MIN,
> - TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MAX);
> + /* this code path could be executed before
> + * timeouts initialized in chip instance.
> + */
> + if (chip->timeout_wait_stat_min &&
> + chip->timeout_wait_stat_max)
> + usleep_range(chip->timeout_wait_stat_min,
> + chip->timeout_wait_stat_max);
> + else
> + usleep_range(TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MIN,
> + TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_MAX);
This starts to look otherwise fine but you don't need this condition.
Just initialize variables to TPM_TIMEOUT_USECS_{MIN, MAX} for non-Atmel.
/Jarkko
