* [PATCH 0/5] tpm: assorted fixes and cleanups
@ 2026-10-03 8:27 Pei Xiao
2026-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 1/5] tpm: tpm_ppi: fix wrong error code returned to user space Pei Xiao
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From: Pei Xiao @ 2026-10-03 8:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jarkko, peterhuewe, jgg, linux-integrity, linux-kernel; +Cc: Pei Xiao
This series fixes several issues found during a code review of
drivers/char/tpm:
1. tpm_ppi: tpm_show_ppi_response() stores its return value in an
acpi_status (a u32 typedef), so error codes such as -EINVAL reach
user space as huge positive values. Declare the variable as
ssize_t to match the show callback's return type.
2. tpm_nsc: tpm_nsc_remove() doubles as the release callback of the
hand-created platform device and dereferences the chip drvdata
unconditionally; init failures before tpmm_chip_alloc() crash
module load. Return early when the chip has not been created.
3. tpm_nsc: the cleanup runs twice on module exit because
tpm_nsc_remove() is both the explicit cleanup and the device
release callback; the second run operates on an already freed
chip. Stop overriding the release callback, which also stops the
platform object allocation from leaking.
4. tpm_dev: a zero-length read() discards a pending response,
breaking the command/response pairing of the TPM character
devices, although POSIX requires zero-count reads to have no side
effects. Return early on a zero count.
5. tpm-interface: make the tpm_init() error messages consistently
prefixed with "tpm: " and report the actual failure of
tpm_dev_common_init().
The series was prepared with AI assistance (GLM-5.3); every change was
reviewed against the code by hand.
Pei Xiao (5):
tpm: tpm_ppi: fix wrong error code returned to user space
tpm: tpm_nsc: fix NULL pointer dereference on init failure
tpm: tpm_nsc: stop using the cleanup callback as dev.release
tpm: fix zero-length read discarding the pending response
tpm: fix log messages in tpm_init()
drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c | 3 +++
drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 6 +++---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c | 8 ++++++--
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ppi.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--
2.25.1
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2026-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 2/5] tpm: tpm_nsc: fix NULL pointer dereference on init failure Pei Xiao
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From: Pei Xiao @ 2026-10-03 8:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jarkko, peterhuewe, jgg, linux-integrity, linux-kernel; +Cc: Pei Xiao
tpm_show_ppi_response() stores its return value in an acpi_status,
a typedef of u32. Both error paths of the function (-EINVAL on a
malformed _DSM package, -EFAULT on a non-zero operation return
code) end up as huge positive values when returned as ssize_t, so
user space cannot detect the failure with the usual "ret < 0"
check.
Declare the variable as ssize_t to match the show callback's
return type.
Fixes: 84b1667dea23 ("ACPI / TPM: replace open-coded _DSM code with helper functions")
Assisted-by: GLM-5.3
Signed-off-by: Pei Xiao <xiaopei01@kylinos.cn>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ppi.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ppi.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ppi.c
index c9793a3d986d..949fb7055bea 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ppi.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ppi.c
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ static ssize_t tpm_show_ppi_response(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{
- acpi_status status = -EINVAL;
+ ssize_t status = -EINVAL;
union acpi_object *obj, *ret_obj;
u64 req, res;
struct tpm_chip *chip = to_tpm_chip(dev);
--
2.25.1
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* [PATCH 2/5] tpm: tpm_nsc: fix NULL pointer dereference on init failure
2026-10-03 8:27 [PATCH 0/5] tpm: assorted fixes and cleanups Pei Xiao
2026-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 1/5] tpm: tpm_ppi: fix wrong error code returned to user space Pei Xiao
@ 2026-10-03 8:27 ` Pei Xiao
2026-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 3/5] tpm: tpm_nsc: stop using the cleanup callback as dev.release Pei Xiao
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From: Pei Xiao @ 2026-10-03 8:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jarkko, peterhuewe, jgg, linux-integrity, linux-kernel; +Cc: Pei Xiao
tpm_nsc_remove() is used as the release callback of the hand-created
platform device and dereferences the chip drvdata unconditionally.
If init fails before tpmm_chip_alloc() (e.g. request_region() cannot
claim the ports), the error path drops the last device reference and
the release callback runs with chip == NULL, crashing module init.
Return early when the chip has not been created yet.
Fixes: afb5abc262e9 ("tpm: two-phase chip management functions")
Assisted-by: GLM-5.3
Signed-off-by: Pei Xiao <xiaopei01@kylinos.cn>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c
index 879ac88f5783..46a52dc99b14 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c
@@ -259,7 +259,12 @@ static struct platform_device *pdev = NULL;
static void tpm_nsc_remove(struct device *dev)
{
struct tpm_chip *chip = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
- struct tpm_nsc_priv *priv = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
+ struct tpm_nsc_priv *priv;
+
+ if (!chip)
+ return;
+
+ priv = dev_get_drvdata(&chip->dev);
tpm_chip_unregister(chip);
release_region(priv->base, 2);
--
2.25.1
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* [PATCH 3/5] tpm: tpm_nsc: stop using the cleanup callback as dev.release
2026-10-03 8:27 [PATCH 0/5] tpm: assorted fixes and cleanups Pei Xiao
2026-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 1/5] tpm: tpm_ppi: fix wrong error code returned to user space Pei Xiao
2026-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 2/5] tpm: tpm_nsc: fix NULL pointer dereference on init failure Pei Xiao
@ 2026-10-03 8:27 ` Pei Xiao
2026-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 4/5] tpm: fix zero-length read discarding the pending response Pei Xiao
2026-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 5/5] tpm: fix log messages in tpm_init() Pei Xiao
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From: Pei Xiao @ 2026-10-03 8:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jarkko, peterhuewe, jgg, linux-integrity, linux-kernel; +Cc: Pei Xiao
tpm_nsc_remove() is called explicitly from cleanup_nsc() and also
runs as the platform device release callback on the final
platform_device_put(), so the cleanup executes twice on module
exit; the second invocation operates on a chip that has already
been freed by the devm cleanup, and the I/O region is released
twice.
Overwriting the release callback installed by
platform_device_alloc() also keeps platform_device_release() from
running, leaking the platform object allocation.
Leave the default release callback in place; the explicit call in
cleanup_nsc() remains the single cleanup point.
Fixes: 570302a31149 ("[PATCH] tpm: move nsc driver off pci_dev")
Assisted-by: GLM-5.3
Signed-off-by: Pei Xiao <xiaopei01@kylinos.cn>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c
index 46a52dc99b14..bcfa2a1a208a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c
@@ -327,7 +327,6 @@ static int __init init_nsc(void)
pdev->num_resources = 0;
pdev->dev.driver = &nsc_drv.driver;
- pdev->dev.release = tpm_nsc_remove;
if ((rc = platform_device_add(pdev)) < 0)
goto err_put_dev;
--
2.25.1
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* [PATCH 4/5] tpm: fix zero-length read discarding the pending response
2026-10-03 8:27 [PATCH 0/5] tpm: assorted fixes and cleanups Pei Xiao
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2026-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 3/5] tpm: tpm_nsc: stop using the cleanup callback as dev.release Pei Xiao
@ 2026-10-03 8:27 ` Pei Xiao
2026-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH 5/5] tpm: fix log messages in tpm_init() Pei Xiao
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From: Pei Xiao @ 2026-10-03 8:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jarkko, peterhuewe, jgg, linux-integrity, linux-kernel; +Cc: Pei Xiao
POSIX requires that a read() with a count of zero returns zero and
has no other effects. tpm_common_read() treats such a call as a
consumed response: it marks the pending response as read and drops
it, so the response can never be retrieved; subsequent reads return
zero and the next write() is allowed to overwrite the response
buffer, silently breaking the command/response pairing of the TPM
character devices.
Return early when the caller passes a zero count, leaving any
pending response untouched for the next read. A zero-length read
will not report a deferred asynchronous error; POSIX permits read()
to skip error detection for a zero count.
Fixes: 9488585b21be ("tpm: add support for partial reads")
Assisted-by: GLM-5.3
Signed-off-by: Pei Xiao <xiaopei01@kylinos.cn>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
index f942c0c8e402..6569212dc6b8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ ssize_t tpm_common_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
ssize_t ret_size = 0;
int rc;
+ if (!size)
+ return 0;
+
mutex_lock(&priv->buffer_mutex);
if (priv->response_length) {
--
2.25.1
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* [PATCH 5/5] tpm: fix log messages in tpm_init()
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From: Pei Xiao @ 2026-10-03 8:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jarkko, peterhuewe, jgg, linux-integrity, linux-kernel; +Cc: Pei Xiao
Make the error messages consistently prefixed with "tpm: ", and fix
the tpm_dev_common_init() failure message which was wrongly copied
from the previous step.
Assisted-by: GLM-5.3
Signed-off-by: Pei Xiao <xiaopei01@kylinos.cn>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
index 1ccdbde98b69..666a1c654c02 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
@@ -524,13 +524,13 @@ static int __init tpm_init(void)
rc = class_register(&tpm_class);
if (rc) {
- pr_err("couldn't create tpm class\n");
+ pr_err("tpm: couldn't create tpm class\n");
return rc;
}
rc = class_register(&tpmrm_class);
if (rc) {
- pr_err("couldn't create tpmrm class\n");
+ pr_err("tpm: couldn't create tpmrm class\n");
goto out_destroy_tpm_class;
}
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ static int __init tpm_init(void)
rc = tpm_dev_common_init();
if (rc) {
- pr_err("tpm: failed to allocate char dev region\n");
+ pr_err("tpm: failed to allocate TPM workqueue\n");
goto out_unreg_chrdev;
}
--
2.25.1
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