[PATCH v3] tpm: tpm_ibm_vtpm: Fix unallocated banks

[Michal Suchánek]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:13:57 +0300
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:28:24PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:13:35PM -0400, Nayna Jain wrote:  
> > > The nr_allocated_banks and allocated banks are initialized as part of
> > > tpm_chip_register. Currently, this is done as part of auto startup
> > > function. However, some drivers, like the ibm vtpm driver, do not run
> > > auto startup during initialization. This results in uninitialized memory
> > > issue and causes a kernel panic during boot.
> > > 
> > > This patch moves the pcr allocation outside the auto startup function
> > > into tpm_chip_register. This ensures that allocated banks are initialized
> > > in any case.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 879b589210a9 ("tpm: retrieve digest size of unknown algorithms with
> > > PCR read")
> > > Reported-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek at suse.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Nayna Jain <nayna at linux.ibm.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.ibm.com>
> > > Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Tested-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek at suse.de>  
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com>  
> 
> Thanks a lot! It is applied now.

Fixes the issue for me.

Thanks

Michal