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Re: [PATCH 6/6] tpm2: add session handle context saving and restoring to the space code

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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 08:17:11AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-02-10 at 14:32 +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:07:08PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
> [...] 
> > > +static int tpm2_session_add(struct tpm_chip *chip, u32 handle)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct tpm_space *space = &chip->work_space;
> > > +	int i;
> > > +
> > > +	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(space->session_tbl); i++)
> > > +		if (space->session_tbl[i] == 0)
> > > +			break;
> > > +	if (i == ARRAY_SIZE(space->session_tbl)) {
> > > +		dev_err(&chip->dev, "out of session slots\n");
> > 
> > This really should be dev_dbg.
> 
> This was my reply to the comment the last time:
> 
>     I can do that, but I think this should be higher than debug.  If
>     this trips, something an application was doing will fail with a non
>     TPM error and someone may wish to investigate why.  Having a kernel
>     message would help with that (but they won't see it if it's debug).
> 
>     I'm also leaning towards the idea that we should actually have one
>     more _tbl slot than we know the TPM does, so that if someone goes
>     over it's the TPM that gives them a real TPM out of memory error
>     rather than the space code returning -ENOMEM.
> 
>     If you agree, I think it should be four for both sessions_tbl and
>     context_tbl.
> 
> So I really don't think it should be debug.  Could we compromise on
> dev_info?
> 
> James

Oops, I'm sorry about that. I use the release chaos as an excuse :-)
I would lower it to dev_warn().

/Jarkko

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[PATCH 6/6] tpm2: add session handle context saving and restoring to the space code Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-08 12:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 6/6] tpm2: add session handle context saving and  restoring to the space code Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-10 10:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/6] tpm2: add session handle context saving and  restoring to the space code James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-10 17:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 6/6] tpm2: add session handle context saving and  restoring to the space code' Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-10 20:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 6/6] tpm2: add session handle context saving and  restoring to the space code Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-10 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/6] tpm2: add session handle context saving and  restoring to the space code James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-10 17:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 6/6] tpm2: add session handle context saving and  restoring to the space code Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-10 20:20 +0100
        Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH 6/6] tpm2: add session handle context  saving and restoring to the space code James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-02-10 20:20 +0100
          Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH 6/6] tpm2: add session handle context  saving and restoring to the space code Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-10 23:50 +0100

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