[coreboot-gerrit] Change in coreboot[master]: drivers/pc80/tpm: Add some optional delay to tis_readresponse()

Philipp Deppenwiese (Code Review) gerrit at coreboot.org
Mon Apr 16 17:47:57 CEST 2018


Philipp Deppenwiese has submitted this change and it was merged. ( https://review.coreboot.org/25322 )

Change subject: drivers/pc80/tpm: Add some optional delay to tis_readresponse()
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drivers/pc80/tpm: Add some optional delay to tis_readresponse()

Certain TPMs (observed on Infineon SLB9635 installed on revolve 810 g1)
seem to need some delay between tis_wait_valid() and
tis_has_valid_data(), or tis_has_valid_data() may invalidly return 0,
ending the loop immaturely with some bytes left unread, and fail to
pass the check below, causing the current command not finalized by
tis_command_ready(), and blocking any later tis_wait_ready().

This time the added delay is controlled by a Kconfig option
TPM_RDRESP_NEED_DELAY.

Change-Id: Ic2a2f252e72a0bbce51e2863f8e46647b1570ba5
Signed-off-by: Bill XIE <persmule at gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/25322
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Deppenwiese <zaolin.daisuki at gmail.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply at coreboot.org>
---
M src/drivers/pc80/tpm/Kconfig
M src/drivers/pc80/tpm/tis.c
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Approvals:
  build bot (Jenkins): Verified
  Paul Menzel: Looks good to me, but someone else must approve
  Philipp Deppenwiese: Looks good to me, approved



diff --git a/src/drivers/pc80/tpm/Kconfig b/src/drivers/pc80/tpm/Kconfig
index 3bd9083..879b4a2 100644
--- a/src/drivers/pc80/tpm/Kconfig
+++ b/src/drivers/pc80/tpm/Kconfig
@@ -46,3 +46,12 @@
 	depends on LPC_TPM
 	help
 	  Deactivate TPM by issuing deactivate command.
+
+config TPM_RDRESP_NEED_DELAY
+	bool "Enable Delay Workaround for TPM"
+	default n
+	depends on LPC_TPM
+	help
+	  Certain TPMs seem to need some delay when reading response
+	  to work around a race-condition-related issue, possibly
+	  caused by ill-programmed TPM firmware.
diff --git a/src/drivers/pc80/tpm/tis.c b/src/drivers/pc80/tpm/tis.c
index 9802654..714b7e5 100644
--- a/src/drivers/pc80/tpm/tis.c
+++ b/src/drivers/pc80/tpm/tis.c
@@ -595,6 +595,14 @@
 		if (offset == expected_count)
 			break;	/* We got all we need */
 
+		/*
+		 * Certain TPMs seem to need some delay between tis_wait_valid()
+		 * and tis_has_valid_data(), or some race-condition-related
+		 * issue will occur.
+		 */
+		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TPM_RDRESP_NEED_DELAY))
+			udelay(10);
+
 	} while (tis_has_valid_data(locality));
 
 	/* * Make sure we indeed read all there was. */

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Gerrit-Project: coreboot
Gerrit-Branch: master
Gerrit-MessageType: merged
Gerrit-Change-Id: Ic2a2f252e72a0bbce51e2863f8e46647b1570ba5
Gerrit-Change-Number: 25322
Gerrit-PatchSet: 4
Gerrit-Owner: Bill XIE <persmule at gmail.com>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Bill XIE <persmule at gmail.com>
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