Re: [PATCH v4] tpm: fix an invalid condition in tpm_common_poll

From: Jonas Witschel
Date: Wed Apr 24 2019 - 03:07:00 EST


On 2019-04-24 02:43, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:54:47PM +0200, Jonas Witschel wrote:
>> On 2019-04-09 15:44, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 02:01:38PM +0200, Thibaut Sautereau wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> What's the status of this patch now? It's needed in linux-5.0.y as TPM
>>>> 2.0 support is currently broken with those stable kernels without this
>>>> commit.
>>>
>>> part of a PR.
>>>
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20190329115544.GA27351@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>>
>>
>> It appears that the final version of the patch that was merged to
>> Linus's tree [1] does not include the "Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" tag.
>> If I understand correctly, this means that the patch will not be
>> automatically included in the -stable tree without further action. Is
>> there a specific reason not to apply this patch to 5.0.x, or did the tag
>> just get lost in the merge process?
>
> Good catch; I see that Jarkko had the same comment on v3 but v4 ended up
> being without the -stable tag without any explanation. I've queued this
> for 5.0, it doesn't seem relevant for older branches.

Thank you! Correct, the regression only affects 5.0.

Regards,
Jonas

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