Re: [TrouSerS-users] cannot clear TPM

[Stefan A. <sas...@re...>]

On 17.07.2009 14:37, Rajiv Andrade wrote:
> Rajiv Andrade wrote:
>> Stefan Assmann wrote:
>>
>>> On 15.07.2009 15:56, Wyllys Ingersoll wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Stefan Assmann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> after I ran the TPM testsuite in a loop for a while it kinda gets stuck
>>>>> in a bad state having lots of tests fail with TPM_E_SIZE. Now Wyllys
>>>>> mentioned the dictionary attack lock could be causing this and suggested
>>>>> to clear the TPM chip, but it looks like that doesn't work either.
>>>>>
>>>>> tpm_clear
>>>>> Enter owner password:
>>>>> Tspi_TPM_ClearOwner failed: 0x00000017 - layer=tpm, code=0017 (23), TPM out of space
>>>>>
>>>>> And yes I entered the right password ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Ah, that error is because trousers leaks auth session handles (especially when running the
>>>> test suite) and the TPM becomes full and will not allow any more authenticated sessions.
>>>> You must reboot to clear it. I submitted a couple of patches for that problem, but I dont
>>>> think they are released yet (unless you are pulling from the git tree).

Okay so I've compiled and installed trousers from the following git
commit 727e48e31800546cc79145ab1d6c58fd587896d5 from
git://git.infradead.org/trousers/trousers.git but the TPM still becomes
full when running the tests in a loop.
Any ideas?

>>> Hi Wyllys,
>>>
>>> which patches and which git tree are you speaking of here. I only found
>>> git://trousers.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/trousers which has it's last
>>> commit in 2008 and didn't solve the problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> http://trousers.git.sourceforge.net/
>> http://git.infradead.org/trousers/trousers.git (mirrored from CVS
>> sourceforge repository)
>>
>> The last commit was yesterday.
>>
>> In order to keep track of the commits you can subscribe to Trousers-cvs
>> mailing list
>>
>>
> Hello again,
>
> Just ran git clone git://trousers.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/trousers
> and the commit log was fine, can you post how you're accessing the
> repository?

must have been an error on my side then. Sorry for the noise and
thanks guys for helping out here. :)

   Stefan
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