Commit fa2825da authored by Jason Gunthorpe's avatar Jason Gunthorpe Committed by Jarkko Sakkinen

tpm: Begin the process to deprecate user_read_timer

For a long time the cdev read/write interface had this strange
idea that userspace had to read the result within 60 seconds otherwise
it is discarded. Perhaps this made sense under some older locking regime,
but in the modern kernel it is not required and is just dangerous.

Since something may be relying on this, double the timeout and print a
warning. We can remove the code in a few years, but this should be
enough to prevent new users.
Suggested-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
parent 1d191553
......@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ static void user_reader_timeout(unsigned long ptr)
{
struct file_priv *priv = (struct file_priv *)ptr;
pr_warn("TPM user space timeout is deprecated (pid=%d)\n",
task_tgid_nr(current));
schedule_work(&priv->work);
}
......@@ -157,7 +160,7 @@ static ssize_t tpm_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
mutex_unlock(&priv->buffer_mutex);
/* Set a timeout by which the reader must come claim the result */
mod_timer(&priv->user_read_timer, jiffies + (60 * HZ));
mod_timer(&priv->user_read_timer, jiffies + (120 * HZ));
return in_size;
}
......
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