[PATCH] tpm: ibmvtpm: Call tpm2_sessions_init() to initialize session support
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko at kernel.org
Tue Jul 2 00:52:33 AEST 2024
On Mon, 2024-06-17 at 15:34 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> Fix the following type of error message caused by a missing call to
> tpm2_sessions_init() in the IBM vTPM driver:
>
> [ 2.987131] tpm tpm0: tpm2_load_context: failed with a TPM error 0x01C4
> [ 2.987140] ima: Error Communicating to TPM chip, result: -14
>
> Fixes: d2add27cf2b8 ("tpm: Add NULL primary creation")
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb at linux.ibm.com>
This is a bug in the hmac encryption. It should be robust enough
to only be enabled if tpm_sessions_init() was called.
It is fine to enable the feature IBM vTPM driver but definitely
not as a bug fix.
Missed this one in the code review.
BR, Jarkko
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