linux/drivers/char
Duncan Laurie 32d33b29ba TPM: Retry SaveState command in suspend path
If the TPM has already been sent a SaveState command before the driver
is loaded it may have problems sending that same command again later.

This issue is seen with the Chromebook Pixel due to a firmware bug in
the legacy mode boot path which is sending the SaveState command
before booting the kernel.  More information is available at
http://crbug.com/203524

This change introduces a retry of the SaveState command in the suspend
path in order to work around this issue.  A future firmware update
should fix this but this is also a trivial workaround in the driver
that has no effect on systems that do not show this problem.

When this does happen the TPM responds with a non-fatal TPM_RETRY code
that is defined in the specification:

  The TPM is too busy to respond to the command immediately, but the
  command could be resubmitted at a later time.  The TPM MAY return
  TPM_RETRY for any command at any time.

It can take several seconds before the TPM will respond again.  I
measured a typical time between 3 and 4 seconds and the timeout is set
at a safe 5 seconds.

It is also possible to reproduce this with commands via /dev/tpm0.
The bug linked above has a python script attached which can be used to
test for this problem.  I tested a variety of TPMs from Infineon,
Nuvoton, Atmel, and STMicro but was only able to reproduce this with
LPC and I2C TPMs from Infineon.

The TPM specification only loosely defines this behavior:

  TPM Main Level 2 Part 3 v1.2 r116, section 3.3. TPM_SaveState:
  The TPM MAY declare all preserved values invalid in response to any
  command other than TPM_Init.

  TCG PC Client BIOS Spec 1.21 section 8.3.1.
  After issuing a TPM_SaveState command, the OS SHOULD NOT issue TPM
  commands before transitioning to S3 without issuing another
  TPM_SaveState command.

  TCG PC Client TIS 1.21, section 4. Power Management:
  The TPM_SaveState command allows a Static OS to indicate to the TPM
  that the platform may enter a low power state where the TPM will be
  required to enter into the D3 power state.  The use of the term "may"
  is significant in that there is no requirement for the platform to
  actually enter the low power state after sending the TPM_SaveState
  command.  The software may, in fact, send subsequent commands after
  sending the TPM_SaveState command.

Change-Id: I52b41e826412688e5b6c8ddd3bb16409939704e9
Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-04-17 09:31:32 -05:00
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agp drm/i915: Disable WC PTE updates to w/a buggy IOMMU on ILK 2013-02-20 00:21:49 +01:00
hw_random hw_random: make buffer usable in scatterlist. 2013-03-05 10:11:41 +10:30
ipmi ipmi: add options to disable openfirmware and PCI scanning 2013-02-27 19:10:21 -08:00
mwave 8250: three way resolve of the 8250 diffs 2012-07-17 09:11:50 -07:00
pcmcia Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
tpm TPM: Retry SaveState command in suspend path 2013-04-17 09:31:32 -05:00
xilinx_hwicap char: remove use of __devexit 2012-11-21 12:55:19 -08:00
apm-emulation.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/apm 2012-04-05 17:34:30 -07:00
applicom.c
applicom.h
bfin-otp.c
bsr.c powerpc/BSR: cleanup the error path of bsr_init 2012-07-17 10:27:38 -07:00
ds1302.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
ds1620.c ARM: footbridge: nw_gpio_lock is raw_spin_lock 2012-10-07 10:33:12 +02:00
dsp56k.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
dtlk.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
efirtc.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
generic_nvram.c drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations 2011-07-20 20:47:58 -04:00
genrtc.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
hangcheck-timer.c
hpet.c ACPI: Remove useless type argument of driver .remove() operation 2013-01-26 00:37:24 +01:00
i8k.c module_param: make bool parameters really bool (drivers & misc) 2012-01-13 09:32:20 +10:30
Kconfig tty: Added a CONFIG_TTY option to allow removal of TTY 2013-01-18 16:15:27 -08:00
lp.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
Makefile IPMI: Change link order 2012-10-16 18:07:12 -07:00
mbcs.c char: remove use of __devinitconst 2012-11-21 12:55:19 -08:00
mbcs.h Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
mem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
misc.c drivers/char/misc.c:misc_register(): do not loop on misc_list unconditionally 2013-02-27 19:10:21 -08:00
mmtimer.c drivers/char/mmtimer.c: Remove useless kfree 2012-09-26 13:20:40 -07:00
msm_smd_pkt.c drivers/char/msm_smd_pkt.c: don't use IS_ERR() 2011-08-25 16:25:33 -07:00
mspec.c mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counter 2012-10-09 16:22:19 +09:00
nsc_gpio.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
nvram.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
nwbutton.c drivers/char: removes unnecessary semicolon 2012-09-26 13:20:39 -07:00
nwbutton.h
nwflash.c Merge branch 'late/fixes' into fixes 2012-10-07 07:22:32 -07:00
pc8736x_gpio.c pc8736x_gpio: use platform_device_unregister in pc8736x_gpio_cleanup() 2012-10-24 15:52:29 -07:00
ppdev.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
ps3flash.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
random.c Fix a circular locking dependency in random's collection of cputime 2013-03-08 14:42:16 -08:00
raw.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
rtc.c drivers/char: removes unnecessary semicolon 2012-09-26 13:20:39 -07:00
scx200_gpio.c
snsc_event.c
snsc.c
snsc.h headers: kobject.h redux 2011-01-10 08:51:44 -08:00
sonypi.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
tb0219.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
tile-srom.c tile-srom.c driver: minor code cleanup 2012-04-02 12:14:10 -04:00
tlclk.c drivers/char/tlclk.c: fix error return code 2012-08-16 10:09:15 -07:00
toshiba.c
ttyprintk.c TTY: call tty_port_destroy in the rest of drivers 2012-11-15 17:20:58 -08:00
uv_mmtimer.c
virtio_console.c All trivial, thanks to the stuff which didn't quite make it time. 2013-02-26 14:49:12 -08:00