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SubjectRe: TPM bug fix causes hang on suspend (2.6.35-rc4)
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Am Freitag, den 16.07.2010, 17:00 -0700 schrieb Sarah Sharp:
> I recently upgraded to 2.6.35-rc4, and I discovered that suspend no
> longer works on my Thinkpad x200s. When I suspend with some programs
> open (specifically while buffy is reading my maildirs), the suspend
> light blinks forever and the system never suspends.
>
> I bisected the issue down to commit b5edfef, which is a merge of James
> Morris' security-testing-2.6 tree, that only included this commit:
>
> commit 02a077c52ef7631275a79862ffd9f3dbe9d38bc2
> Author: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Mon Jun 14 13:58:22 2010 -0300
>
> TPM: ReadPubEK output struct fix
>
> This patch adds a missing element of the ReadPubEK command output,
> that prevents future overflow of this buffer when copying the
> TPM output result into it.
>
> Prevents a kernel panic in case the user tries to read the
> pubek from sysfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> index 8e00b4d..792868d 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ struct tpm_readpubek_params_out {
> u8 algorithm[4];
> u8 encscheme[2];
> u8 sigscheme[2];
> + __be32 paramsize;
> u8 parameters[12]; /*assuming RSA*/
> __be32 keysize;
> u8 modulus[256];
>
> The dmesg captured over netconsole when suspend fails is attached, but
> it doesn't look very interesting. lspci output is also attached. I
> don't have any userspace programs installed that can use TPM, like
> trousers or libtspi1.
>
> If I try just removing the tpm_tis, tpm_bios, and tpm modules before
> suspending, the suspend still fails. If I recompile without TPM
> hardware support (CONFIG_TCG_TPM=n), suspend still fails. However, if I
> also turn off the securityFS config option (CONFIG_SECURITYFS),
> suspend succeeds.
>
> It looks like an odd commit to cause a suspend failure, but when I reset
> the git HEAD to the commit before the merge of this patch, and suspend
> works fine. Can you fix this?
>
> Sarah Sharp

Maybe same as https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16256 ?





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