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From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: "William Brown" <wbrown@suse.de>
Cc: "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	<linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>, <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	<jgg@ziepe.ca>, "Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: TPM error 0x0901, possibly related to TPM2_PT_CONTEXT_GAP_MAX
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:43:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D0JBMQ8POIZ5.3A7ZIQY5PW9SM@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C1E92886-E7ED-4425-8A31-22FE196C5218@suse.de>

On Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 2:21 AM EEST, William Brown wrote:
>
>
> > On 12 Apr 2024, at 08:50, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu Apr 4, 2024 at 6:49 PM EEST, James Bottomley wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2024-04-04 at 18:09 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>> Emphasis that I might have forgotten something but this is what I can
> >>> remember right now.
> >> 
> >> What you forgot is that I did originally proposed session degapping in
> >> the kernel resource manager but it was rather complex, so you made me
> >> take it out for lack of a use case.  It dates back to when we used the
> >> old sourceforge tpmdd list which seems to have caused message loss, so
> >> I'm not sure how complete this thread is:
> > 
> > I might be forgetting some detail to contxt gap but since kernel flushes
> > every single object per transaction contextCounter should be updated all
> > the time and thus there should not be too large gap that would cause
> > emitting this error.
> > 
> > I quickly reviewed section 30.5 for architecture specificaton to check
> > if I got it right and it says that: "On receiving this error, the
> > management software either would explicitly flush old session contexts
> > or would load the old session contexts to update their associated
> > counter values.."
>
> The issue is that we *are* flushing session contexts and this error is still occurring.

Was there a way that I could reproduce the same workload or something
simpler that would reproduce the issue on my side?

BR, Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-13 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-04  2:19 TPM error 0x0901, possibly related to TPM2_PT_CONTEXT_GAP_MAX William Brown
2024-04-04 15:06 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-04-04 15:09   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-04-04 15:49     ` James Bottomley
2024-04-05  0:24       ` William Brown
2024-04-13 20:50         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-04-11 22:50       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-04-11 23:21         ` William Brown
2024-04-13 21:43           ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2024-04-05  0:24   ` William Brown
2024-04-13 20:54     ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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