tpm: Propagate error from tpm_transmit to fix a timeout hang

tpm_write calls tpm_transmit without checking the return value and
assigns the return value unconditionally to chip->pending_data, even if
it's an error value.
This causes three bugs.

So if we write to /dev/tpm0 with a tpm_param_size bigger than
TPM_BUFSIZE=0x1000 (e.g. 0x100a)
and a bufsize also bigger than TPM_BUFSIZE (e.g. 0x100a)
tpm_transmit returns -E2BIG which is assigned to chip->pending_data as
-7, but tpm_write returns that TPM_BUFSIZE bytes have been successfully
been written to the TPM, altough this is not true (bug #1).

As we did write more than than TPM_BUFSIZE bytes but tpm_write reports
that only TPM_BUFSIZE bytes have been written the vfs tries to write
the remaining bytes (in this case 10 bytes) to the tpm device driver via
tpm_write which then blocks at

 /* cannot perform a write until the read has cleared
 either via tpm_read or a user_read_timer timeout */
 while (atomic_read(&chip->data_pending) != 0)
	 msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT);

for 60 seconds, since data_pending is -7 and nobody is able to
read it (since tpm_read luckily checks if data_pending is greater than
0) (#bug 2).

After that the remaining bytes are written to the TPM which are
interpreted by the tpm as a normal command. (bug #3)
So if the last bytes of the command stream happen to be a e.g.
tpm_force_clear this gets accidentally sent to the TPM.

This patch fixes all three bugs, by propagating the error code of
tpm_write and returning -E2BIG if the input buffer is too big,
since the response from the tpm for a truncated value is bogus anyway.
Moreover it returns -EBUSY to userspace if there is a response ready to be
read.

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peter.huewe@infineon.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
index 6724615..4caef33 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
@@ -1182,17 +1182,20 @@ ssize_t tpm_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
                  size_t size, loff_t *off)
 {
        struct tpm_chip *chip = file->private_data;
-       size_t in_size = size, out_size;
+       size_t in_size = size;
+       ssize_t out_size;
 
        /* cannot perform a write until the read has cleared
-          either via tpm_read or a user_read_timer timeout */
-       while (atomic_read(&chip->data_pending) != 0)
-               msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT);
-
-       mutex_lock(&chip->buffer_mutex);
+          either via tpm_read or a user_read_timer timeout.
+          This also prevents splitted buffered writes from blocking here.
+       */
+       if (atomic_read(&chip->data_pending) != 0)
+               return -EBUSY;
 
        if (in_size > TPM_BUFSIZE)
-               in_size = TPM_BUFSIZE;
+               return -E2BIG;
+
+       mutex_lock(&chip->buffer_mutex);
 
        if (copy_from_user
            (chip->data_buffer, (void __user *) buf, in_size)) {
@@ -1202,6 +1205,10 @@ ssize_t tpm_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 
        /* atomic tpm command send and result receive */
        out_size = tpm_transmit(chip, chip->data_buffer, TPM_BUFSIZE);
+       if (out_size < 0) {
+               mutex_unlock(&chip->buffer_mutex);
+               return out_size;
+       }
 
        atomic_set(&chip->data_pending, out_size);
        mutex_unlock(&chip->buffer_mutex);