Re: TPM/EFI issue [Was: Linux 6.12]

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>]

On 09. 12. 24, 13:54, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Sat Dec 7, 2024 at 2:16 PM EET, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>> On Mon Dec 2, 2024 at 9:52 AM EET, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>> On 30. 11. 24, 3:49, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>>>> On Wed Nov 27, 2024 at 8:46 AM EET, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>>>> Cc TPM + EFI guys.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 17. 11. 24, 23:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>>>> But before the merge window opens, please give this a quick test to
>>>>>> make sure we didn't mess anything up. The shortlog below gives you the
>>>>>> summary for the last week, and nothing really jumps out at me. A
>>>>>> number of last-minute reverts, and some random fairly small fixes
>>>>>> fairly spread out in the tree.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> there is a subtle bug in 6.12 wrt TPM (in TPM, EFI, or perhaps in
>>>>> something else):
>>>>> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233752
>>>>>
>>>>> Our testing (openQA) fails with 6.12:
>>>>> https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/4657304#step/trup_smoke/26
>>>>>
>>>>> The last good is with 6.11.7:
>>>>> https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/4648526
>>>>>
>>>>> In sum:
>>>>> TPM is supposed to provide a key for decrypting the root partitition,
>>>>> but fails for some reason.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's extremely hard (so far) to reproduce outside of openQA (esp. when
>>>>> trying custom kernels).
>>>
>>> Mark "X".
>>>
>>>>> Most of the 6.12 TPM stuff already ended in (good) 6.11.7. I tried to
>>>>> revert:
>>>>>      423893fcbe7e tpm: Disable TPM on tpm2_create_primary() failure
>>>>> from 6.12 but that still fails.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are debugging this further, this is just so you know.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or maybe you have some immediate ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Nothing immediate but I've had to tweak quite a lot of TPM bus
>>>> integrity protection feature so it is a possibility that I've
>>>> made a mistake in a point or another.
>>>>
>>>> Can you bisect the issue possibly?
>>>
>>> No, see mark "X" :).
>>>
>>> But follow the downstream bug for progress:
>>> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233752
>>
>> Just came back from company retrite from BCN.
>>
>> I can follow this but cannot comment because I've never been
>> able to get a bugzilla account working for any of SUSE infra
>> :-)
>>
>> I was actually surprised that I'm able to view the bug at
>> all... Bookmarked it and this thread from lore and revisit
>> like in the middle of the week (my calendar is filled with
>> meetings Mon/Tue).
> 
> Hmm... OK, so no action from my side I guess (sorry if I ignored
> something did not read every single comment)?

Perhaps, you can give a hint why those happen exclusively with 6.12+?

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs