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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jul 30 2012 - 16:53:16 EST


On 07/30/2012 01:51 PM, Kent Yoder wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps we should just do the same "err = total ? total : -EIO;" here
>>> and the above statement can just turn into a break;.
>>
>> Yeah, this seems like the right thing to do.
>>
>>>> - 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!
>>
>> Dave, can you weigh in on these individual cases? In some cases
>> like capping a pcr I think using uninitialized stack data could be
>> better than failing...
>
> I got in touch with Dave today, who'd like the full checking done now
> that we can. Here's a new patch, let me know what you think...
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-hpa

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