This is shown with Samsung Chromebook Pro (Caroline) with TPM 1.2
(SLB 9670):
[ 4.324298] TPM returned invalid status
[ 4.324806] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis_core.c:275 tpm_tis_status+0x86/0x8f
Background
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TCG PC Client Platform TPM Profile (PTP) Specification, paragraph 6.1 FIFO
Interface Locality Usage per Register, Table 39 Register Behavior Based on
Locality Setting for FIFO - a read attempt to TPM_STS_x Registers returns
0xFF in case of lack of locality.
The fix
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Decorate tpm_get_timeouts() with request_locality() and release_locality().
Fixes: a3fbfae82b ("tpm: take TPM chip power gating out of tpm_transmit()")
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Lukasz Majczak <lma@semihalf.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
a5665ec2af