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

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 01:14:32PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 2/25/20 11:57 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Command request queue.
> 
> 
> > 
> > > 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?
> 
> Which commit should I mention?

The one that introduced the race condition if there is such.

/Jarkko