diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
index 5880377..f62c851 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c
@@ -29,9 +29,8 @@
 #include "tpm.h"
 #include "tpm_eventlog.h"
 
-static DECLARE_BITMAP(dev_mask, TPM_NUM_DEVICES);
-static LIST_HEAD(tpm_chip_list);
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(driver_lock);
+DEFINE_IDR(dev_nums_idr);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(idr_lock);
 
 struct class *tpm_class;
 dev_t tpm_devt;
@@ -88,20 +87,30 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tpm_put_ops);
   */
 struct tpm_chip *tpm_chip_find_get(int chip_num)
 {
-	struct tpm_chip *pos, *chip = NULL;
+	struct tpm_chip *chip, *res = NULL;
+	int chip_prev;
+
+	mutex_lock(&idr_lock);
+
+	if (chip_num == TPM_ANY_NUM) {
+		chip_num = 0;
+		do {
+			chip_prev = chip_num;
+			chip = idr_get_next(&dev_nums_idr, &chip_num);
+			if (chip && !tpm_try_get_ops(chip)) {
+				res = chip;
+				break;
+			}
+		} while (chip_prev != chip_num);
+	} else {
+		chip = idr_find_slowpath(&dev_nums_idr, chip_num);
+		if (chip && !tpm_try_get_ops(chip))
+			res = chip;
+	}
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	list_for_each_entry_rcu(pos, &tpm_chip_list, list) {
-		if (chip_num != TPM_ANY_NUM && chip_num != pos->dev_num)
-			continue;
+	mutex_unlock(&idr_lock);
 
-		/* rcu prevents chip from being free'd */
-		if (!tpm_try_get_ops(pos))
-			chip = pos;
-		break;
-	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-	return chip;
+	return res;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -114,9 +123,10 @@ static void tpm_dev_release(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct tpm_chip *chip = container_of(dev, struct tpm_chip, dev);
 
-	spin_lock(&driver_lock);
-	clear_bit(chip->dev_num, dev_mask);
-	spin_unlock(&driver_lock);
+	mutex_lock(&idr_lock);
+	idr_remove(&dev_nums_idr, chip->dev_num);
+	mutex_unlock(&idr_lock);
+
 	kfree(chip);
 }
 
@@ -142,21 +152,18 @@ struct tpm_chip *tpm_chip_alloc(struct device *dev,
 
 	mutex_init(&chip->tpm_mutex);
 	init_rwsem(&chip->ops_sem);
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&chip->list);
 
 	chip->ops = ops;
 
-	spin_lock(&driver_lock);
-	chip->dev_num = find_first_zero_bit(dev_mask, TPM_NUM_DEVICES);
-	spin_unlock(&driver_lock);
-
-	if (chip->dev_num >= TPM_NUM_DEVICES) {
+	mutex_lock(&idr_lock);
+	rc = idr_alloc(&dev_nums_idr, NULL, 0, TPM_NUM_DEVICES, GFP_KERNEL);
+	mutex_unlock(&idr_lock);
+	if (rc < 0) {
 		dev_err(dev, "No available tpm device numbers\n");
 		kfree(chip);
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+		return ERR_PTR(rc);
 	}
-
-	set_bit(chip->dev_num, dev_mask);
+	chip->dev_num = rc;
 
 	device_initialize(&chip->dev);
 
@@ -242,19 +249,28 @@ static int tpm_add_char_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
 		return rc;
 	}
 
+	/* Make the chip available. */
+	mutex_lock(&idr_lock);
+	idr_replace(&dev_nums_idr, chip, chip->dev_num);
+	mutex_unlock(&idr_lock);
+
 	return rc;
 }
 
 static void tpm_del_char_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
 {
 	cdev_del(&chip->cdev);
+	device_del(&chip->dev);
+
+	/* Make the chip unavailable. */
+	mutex_lock(&idr_lock);
+	idr_replace(&dev_nums_idr, NULL, chip->dev_num);
+	mutex_unlock(&idr_lock);
 
 	/* Make the driver uncallable. */
 	down_write(&chip->ops_sem);
 	chip->ops = NULL;
 	up_write(&chip->ops_sem);
-
-	device_del(&chip->dev);
 }
 
 static int tpm1_chip_register(struct tpm_chip *chip)
@@ -309,11 +325,6 @@ int tpm_chip_register(struct tpm_chip *chip)
 	if (rc)
 		goto out_err;
 
-	/* Make the chip available. */
-	spin_lock(&driver_lock);
-	list_add_tail_rcu(&chip->list, &tpm_chip_list);
-	spin_unlock(&driver_lock);
-
 	chip->flags |= TPM_CHIP_FLAG_REGISTERED;
 
 	if (!(chip->flags & TPM_CHIP_FLAG_TPM2)) {
@@ -350,11 +361,6 @@ void tpm_chip_unregister(struct tpm_chip *chip)
 	if (!(chip->flags & TPM_CHIP_FLAG_REGISTERED))
 		return;
 
-	spin_lock(&driver_lock);
-	list_del_rcu(&chip->list);
-	spin_unlock(&driver_lock);
-	synchronize_rcu();
-
 	if (!(chip->flags & TPM_CHIP_FLAG_TPM2))
 		sysfs_remove_link(&chip->dev.parent->kobj, "ppi");
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
index 5caf154..5397b64 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c
@@ -1139,6 +1139,7 @@ static int __init tpm_init(void)
 
 static void __exit tpm_exit(void)
 {
+	idr_destroy(&dev_nums_idr);
 	class_destroy(tpm_class);
 	unregister_chrdev_region(tpm_devt, TPM_NUM_DEVICES);
 }
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
index 5fcf788..928b47f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 enum tpm_const {
 	TPM_MINOR = 224,	/* officially assigned */
 	TPM_BUFSIZE = 4096,
-	TPM_NUM_DEVICES = 256,
+	TPM_NUM_DEVICES = 65536,
 	TPM_RETRY = 50,		/* 5 seconds */
 };
 
@@ -195,8 +195,6 @@ struct tpm_chip {
 	acpi_handle acpi_dev_handle;
 	char ppi_version[TPM_PPI_VERSION_LEN + 1];
 #endif /* CONFIG_ACPI */
-
-	struct list_head list;
 };
 
 #define to_tpm_chip(d) container_of(d, struct tpm_chip, dev)
@@ -492,6 +490,7 @@ static inline void tpm_buf_append_u32(struct tpm_buf *buf, const u32 value)
 extern struct class *tpm_class;
 extern dev_t tpm_devt;
 extern const struct file_operations tpm_fops;
+extern struct idr dev_nums_idr;
 
 ssize_t	tpm_getcap(struct device *, __be32, cap_t *, const char *);
 ssize_t tpm_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip, const char *buf,
