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TPM: Add new TPMs to the tail of the list to prevent inadvertent change of dev
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:33:02 +0000 (10:33 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Sun, 1 Mar 2015 22:34:18 +0000 (23:34 +0100)
commit 398a1e71dc827b994b7f2f56c7c2186fea7f8d75 upstream.

Add newly registered TPMs to the tail of the list, not the beginning, so that
things that are specifying TPM_ANY_NUM don't find that the device they're
using has inadvertently changed.  Adding a second device would break IMA, for
instance.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c

index 48138b311460ce85076d5956910680ee9fcd3ba1..23c71e7a875f043f43c28b68ec811d411193c518 100644 (file)
@@ -1583,7 +1583,7 @@ struct tpm_chip *tpm_register_hardware(struct device *dev,
 
        /* Make chip available */
        spin_lock(&driver_lock);
-       list_add_rcu(&chip->list, &tpm_chip_list);
+       list_add_tail_rcu(&chip->list, &tpm_chip_list);
        spin_unlock(&driver_lock);
 
        return chip;