tpm: ibmvtpm: Wait for ready buffer before probing for TPM2 attributes
The tpm2_get_cc_attrs_tbl() call will result in TPM commands being issued, which will need the use of the internal command/response buffer. But, we're issuing this *before* we've waited to make sure that buffer is allocated. This can result in intermittent failures to probe if the hypervisor / TPM implementation doesn't respond quickly enough. I find it fails almost every time with an 8 vcpu guest under KVM with software emulated TPM. To fix it, just move the tpm2_get_cc_attrs_tlb() call after the existing code to wait for initialization, which will ensure the buffer is allocated. Fixes: 18b3670d ("tpm: ibmvtpm: Add support for TPM2") Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Reviewed-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
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