Similar to the transmission of TPM responses, also the transmission of TPM commands may become corrupted. Instead of aborting when detecting such issues, try resending the command again. Signed-off-by: Alexander Steffen <Alexander.Steffen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c index a6d1396413a7..7b13ad4bd6dd 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c @@ -532,10 +532,17 @@ static int tpm_tis_send_main(struct tpm_chip *chip, const u8 *buf, size_t len) int rc; u32 ordinal; unsigned long dur; + unsigned int try; - rc = tpm_tis_send_data(chip, buf, len); - if (rc < 0) - return rc; + for (try = 0; try < TPM_RETRY; try++) { + rc = tpm_tis_send_data(chip, buf, len); + if (rc >= 0) + /* Data transfer done successfully */ + break; + else if (rc != -EIO) + /* Data transfer failed, not recoverable */ + return rc; + } /* go and do it */ rc = tpm_tis_write8(priv, TPM_STS(priv->locality), TPM_STS_GO); -- 2.25.1