Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] tpm: ibmvtpm: Wait for buffer to be set before proceeding

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:23:27PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Synchronize with the results from the CRQs before continuing with
> the initialization. This avoids trying to send TPM commands while
> the rtce buffer has not been allocated, yet.

What is CRQ anyway an acronym of?

> This patch fixes an existing race condition that may occurr if the
> hypervisor does not quickly respond to the VTPM_GET_RTCE_BUFFER_SIZE
> request sent during initialization and therefore the ibmvtpm->rtce_buf
> has not been allocated at the time the first TPM command is sent.

If it fixes a race condition, why doesn't it have a fixes tag?

/Jarkko