Re: [GIT PULL] New TPM driver, hwrng driver and fixes

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Jul 27 2012 - 18:09:41 EST


On 07/27/2012 01:30 PM, Kent Yoder wrote:

> +
> + do {
> + tpm_cmd.header.in = tpm_getrandom_header;
> + tpm_cmd.params.getrandom_in.num_bytes = cpu_to_be32(num_bytes);
> +
> + err = transmit_cmd(chip, &tpm_cmd,
> + TPM_GETRANDOM_RESULT_SIZE + num_bytes,
> + "attempting get random");
> + if (err) {
> + /* err can be positive if it came from the TPM itself,
> + * so return a negative value here instead. */
> + err = -EFAULT;

-EFAULT is definitely wrong (that means a bad pointer was passed), you
can use -EIO instead.

However, I would suggest:

err = total ? total : -EIO;

... so you report the number of bytes successfully received if we got
any. However, since you *also* do that on the retry line,

> + goto out_err;
> + }
> +
> + recd = be32_to_cpu(tpm_cmd.params.getrandom_out.rng_data_len);
> + memcpy(dest, tpm_cmd.params.getrandom_out.rng_data, recd);
> +
> + dest += recd;
> + total += recd;
> + num_bytes -= recd;
> + } while (retries-- && total < max);
> +
> + err = total;

Should we return something other than 0 if we run out of retries here, too?

Perhaps we should just do the same "err = total ? total : -EIO;" here
and the above statement can just turn into a break;.

> - ret = my_get_random(hash, SHA1_DIGEST_SIZE);
> + ret = tpm_get_random(TPM_ANY_NUM, hash, SHA1_DIGEST_SIZE);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;

You are still not checking the return values correctly!

This needs to be something like:

ret = tpm_get_random(TPM_ANY_NUM, hash, SHA1_DIGEST_SIZE);
if (ret != SHA1_DIGEST_SIZE)
return -EIO; /* Or whatever is appropriate here */


-hpa
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/