Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH RFC v3 5/5] tpm2: expose resource manager via a device link /dev/tpms<n>

From: James Bottomley
Date: Wed Jan 18 2017 - 10:01:18 EST


On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 15:12 +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently the Resource Manager (RM) is not exposed to userspace.
> Make
> this exposure via a separate device, which can now be opened multiple
> times because each read/write transaction goes separately via the RM.
>
> Concurrency is protected by the chip->tpm_mutex for each read/write
> transaction separately. The TPM is cleared of all transient objects
> by the time the mutex is dropped, so there should be no interference
> between the kernel and userspace.

There's actually a missing kfree of context_buf on the tpms_release
path as well. This patch fixes it up.

James

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commit 778425973c532a0c1ec2b5b2ccd7ff995e2cc9db
Author: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jan 18 09:58:23 2017 -0500

add missing kfree to tpms_release

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpms-dev.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpms-dev.c
index c10b308..6bb687f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpms-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpms-dev.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ static int tpms_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
struct tpms_priv *priv = container_of(fpriv, struct tpms_priv, priv);

tpm_common_release(file, fpriv);
+ kfree(priv->space.context_buf);
kfree(priv);

return 0;