Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] tpm: Issue a TPM2_Shutdown for TPM2 devices.

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On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:58:03PM -0700, Josh Zimmerman wrote:
> Backport of d1bd4a792d3961a04e6154118816b00167aad91a upstream.
> 
> If a TPM2 loses power without a TPM2_Shutdown command being issued (a
> "disorderly reboot"), it may lose some state that has yet to be
> persisted to NVRam, and will increment the DA counter. After the DA
> counter gets sufficiently large, the TPM will lock the user out.
> 
> NOTE: This only changes behavior on TPM2 devices. Since TPM1 uses sysfs,
> and sysfs relies on implicit locking on chip->ops, it is not safe to
> allow this code to run in TPM1, or to add sysfs support to TPM2, until
> that locking is made explicit.
> ---
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c  | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c |  7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
> 

Again no signed-off-by :(



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