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-rw-r--r--src/security/tpm/Kconfig9
-rw-r--r--src/security/tpm/tspi/tspi.c5
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/security/tpm/Kconfig b/src/security/tpm/Kconfig
index 3af6d69e2b..95c0bb9b7d 100644
--- a/src/security/tpm/Kconfig
+++ b/src/security/tpm/Kconfig
@@ -93,4 +93,13 @@ config TPM_RDRESP_NEED_DELAY
to work around a race-condition-related issue, possibly
caused by ill-programmed TPM firmware.
+config TPM_STARTUP_IGNORE_POSTINIT
+ bool
+ help
+ Select this to ignore POSTINIT INVALID return codes on TPM
+ startup. This is useful on platforms where a previous stage
+ issued a TPM startup. Examples of use cases are Intel TXT
+ or VBOOT on the Intel Nehalem northbridge which issues a
+ CPU-only reset during the romstage.
+
endmenu # Trusted Platform Module (tpm)
diff --git a/src/security/tpm/tspi/tspi.c b/src/security/tpm/tspi/tspi.c
index 4698a4dc8c..966b8b7c77 100644
--- a/src/security/tpm/tspi/tspi.c
+++ b/src/security/tpm/tspi/tspi.c
@@ -141,6 +141,11 @@ uint32_t tpm_setup(int s3flag)
}
result = tlcl_startup();
+ if (CONFIG(TPM_STARTUP_IGNORE_POSTINIT)
+ && result == TPM_E_INVALID_POSTINIT) {
+ printk(BIOS_DEBUG, "TPM: ignoring invalid POSTINIT\n");
+ result = TPM_SUCCESS;
+ }
if (result != TPM_SUCCESS) {
printk(BIOS_ERR, "TPM: Can't run startup command.\n");
return tpm_setup_epilogue(result);