[PATCH 2/3] tpm/kexec: Duplicate TPM measurement log in of-tree for kexec

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Wed Jun 15 13:18:37 PDT 2022


On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 11:48:30AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> (),On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 10:13 AM Stefan Berger <stefanb at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > The memory area of the TPM measurement log is currently not properly
> > duplicated for carrying it across kexec when an Open Firmware
> > Devicetree is used. Therefore, the contents of the log get corrupted.
> > Fix this for the kexec_file_load() syscall by allocating a buffer and
> > copying the contents of the existing log into it. The new buffer is
> > preserved across the kexec and a pointer to it is available when the new
> > kernel is started. To achieve this, store the allocated buffer's address
> > in the flattened device tree (fdt) under the name linux,tpm-kexec-buffer
> > and search for this entry early in the kernel startup before the TPM
> > subsystem starts up. Adjust the pointer in the of-tree stored under
> > linux,sml-base to point to this buffer holding the preserved log. The
> > TPM driver can then read the base address from this entry when making
> > the log available.
> 

> > +{
> > +       const u32 *sizep;
> > +       const u64 *basep;
> > +
> > +       sizep = of_get_property(np, "linux,sml-size", NULL);
> > +       basep = of_get_property(np, "linux,sml-base", NULL);
> 
> Any new properties need a schema. For chosen, that's located here[1].
> The more common pattern for similar properties is <base size>.

I noticed these are already documented and are TPM node properties. I 
was thinking these are chosen node properties. Though it would be good 
to get these common TPM properties converted to schema. That can live in 
the kernel tree.

Rob



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