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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
index 8856cce5a23b..817ae09a369e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev-common.c
@@ -233,12 +233,19 @@ __poll_t tpm_common_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
__poll_t mask = 0;
poll_wait(file, &priv->async_wait, wait);
+ mutex_lock(&priv->buffer_mutex);
- if (!priv->response_read || priv->response_length)
+ /*
+ * The response_length indicates if there is still response
+ * (or part of it) to be consumed. Partial reads decrease it
+ * by the number of bytes read, and write resets it the zero.
+ */
+ if (priv->response_length)
mask = EPOLLIN | EPOLLRDNORM;
else
mask = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM;
+ mutex_unlock(&priv->buffer_mutex);
return mask;
}