The patch below does not apply to the 3.18-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 18:30:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tpm/tpm_i2c_atmel: Return -E2BIG when the transfer is incomplete
Return -E2BIG when the transfer is incomplete. The upper layer does not retry, so not doing that is incorrect behaviour.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: a2871c62e186 ("tpm: Add support for Atmel I2C TPMs") Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger stefanb@linux.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Jerry Snitselaar jsnitsel@redhat.com
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_atmel.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_atmel.c index 32a8e27c5382..cc4e642d3180 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_atmel.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_atmel.c @@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ static int i2c_atmel_send(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 *buf, size_t len) if (status < 0) return status;
+ /* The upper layer does not support incomplete sends. */ + if (status != len) + return -E2BIG; + return 0; }