Re: [PATCH 1/8] tpm: initialize crypto_id of allocated_banks to HASH_ALGO__LAST

[Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 16:11 +0000, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jarkko Sakkinen [mailto:jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2020 9:48 AM
> > To: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>; zohar@linux.ibm.com;
> > james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com; linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> > Silviu Vlasceanu <Silviu.Vlasceanu@huawei.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] tpm: initialize crypto_id of allocated_banks to
> > HASH_ALGO__LAST
> > 
> > On Mon, 2020-01-27 at 18:04 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > > chip->allocated_banks contains the list of TPM algorithm IDs of allocated
> > > PCR banks. It also contains the corresponding ID of the crypto subsystem,
> > > so that users of the TPM driver can calculate a digest for a PCR extend
> > > operation.
> > >
> > > However, if there is no mapping between TPM algorithm ID and crypto ID,
> > the
> > > crypto_id field in chip->allocated_banks remains set to zero (the array is
> > > allocated and initialized with kcalloc() in tpm2_get_pcr_allocation()).
> > > Zero should not be used as value for unknown mappings, as it is a valid
> > > crypto ID (HASH_ALGO_MD4).
> > >
> > > This patch initializes crypto_id to HASH_ALGO__LAST.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>---
> > 
> > Remarks:
> > 
> > * After the subsystem tag, short summary starts with a capital lettter.
> > * Missing fixes tag and cc tag to stable.
> > * A struct called allocated_banks does not exist.
> > * Please prefer using an imperative sentence when describing the action
> >   to take e.g. "Thus, initialize crypto_id to HASH_ALGO__LAST".
> 
> Thanks. I will fix these issues in the next version of the patch set.

Jarkko, I realize this is a TPM patch, but this patch set is dependent
on it.  When this patch is ready, could you create a topic branch,
which both of us could merge?

thanks,

Mimi