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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tpm_tis_spi: Don't send anything during flow control
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Dear Douglas,


Thank you for the patch.

Am 29.05.20 um 00:19 schrieb Douglas Anderson:
> During flow control we are just reading from the TPM, yet our spi_xfer
> has the tx_buf and rx_buf both non-NULL which means we're requesting a
> full duplex transfer.
>
> SPI is always somewhat of a full duplex protocol anyway and in theory
> the other side shouldn't really be looking at what we're sending it
> during flow control, but it's still a bit ugly to be sending some
> "random" data when we shouldn't.
>
> The default tpm_tis_spi_flow_control() tries to address this by
> setting 'phy->iobuf[0] = 0'. This partially avoids the problem of
> sending "random" data, but since our tx_buf and rx_buf both point to
> the same place I believe there is the potential of us sending the
> TPM's previous byte back to it if we hit the retry loop.
>
> Another flow control implementation, cr50_spi_flow_control(), doesn't
> address this at all.
>
> Let's clean this up and just make the tx_buf NULL before we call
> flow_control(). Not only does this ensure that we're not sending any
> "random" bytes but it also possibly could make the SPI controller
> behave in a slightly more optimal way.
>
> NOTE: no actual observed problems are fixed by this patch--it's was
> just made based on code inspection.

s/it's was/it was/

Were you able to test this? Maybe in the “Chromebook QA arsenal”? Are
you already running it in production on Google Chrome OS devices?

> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> ---
>
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi_main.c | 9 ++++-----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi_main.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi_main.c
> index d96755935529..8d2c581a93c6 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_spi_main.c
> @@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ static int tpm_tis_spi_flow_control(struct tpm_tis_spi_phy *phy,
>
> if ((phy->iobuf[3] & 0x01) == 0) {
> // handle SPI wait states
> - phy->iobuf[0] = 0;
> -
> for (i = 0; i < TPM_RETRY; i++) {
> spi_xfer->len = 1;
> spi_message_init(&m);
> @@ -104,6 +102,8 @@ int tpm_tis_spi_transfer(struct tpm_tis_data *data, u32 addr, u16 len,
> if (ret < 0)
> goto exit;
>
> + /* Flow control transfers are receive only */
> + spi_xfer.tx_buf = NULL;
> ret = phy->flow_control(phy, &spi_xfer);
> if (ret < 0)
> goto exit;
> @@ -113,9 +113,8 @@ int tpm_tis_spi_transfer(struct tpm_tis_data *data, u32 addr, u16 len,
> spi_xfer.delay.value = 5;
> spi_xfer.delay.unit = SPI_DELAY_UNIT_USECS;
>
> - if (in) {
> - spi_xfer.tx_buf = NULL;
> - } else if (out) {
> + if (out) {
> + spi_xfer.tx_buf = phy->iobuf;
> spi_xfer.rx_buf = NULL;
> memcpy(phy->iobuf, out, transfer_len);
> out += transfer_len;

Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>


Kind regards,

Paul

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