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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, peterhuewe@gmx.de,
	jarkko@kernel.org, jgg@ziepe.ca
Subject: Re: Avoiding EBUSY on TPM writes
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:54:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230615235422.GA15637@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d157ccc308103b8bf158c903dfa53ee723db58fb.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 07:38:57PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:

> However, this behaviour is per-fd, why can't you just open multiple
> fd's for your multiple accesses?  /dev/tpmrm0 will assure that they
> don't see each other and that the commands are properly sequenced
> without giving you an EBUSY.  And bonus you don't have to keep global
> track of how many transient resources you've used.

Argh! Sorry, I'd missed that this was per-fd - that makes complete 
sense. Let me figure out why we're re-using the same fd for multiple 
requests.

      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-15 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-15 21:09 Avoiding EBUSY on TPM writes Matthew Garrett
2023-06-15 23:38 ` James Bottomley
2023-06-15 23:54   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]

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