From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tpm2@lists.linux.dev, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org (open list:KEYS-TRUSTED),
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SUBSYSTEM), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH v7 0/3] Optimize tpm2_read_public() calls
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 07:06:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251208050620.339408-1-jarkko@kernel.org> (raw)
The main goal is fairly straight-forwrd here.
The aim of these patches is optimize the number of tpm2_read_public() calls
to the bare minimum.
## About dropping 'parentName' attribute for ASN.1 keys from the patch set
I wrote this section as a remainder as I have facts fresh in my mind so
that I can return them as soon as there is working group for the ASN.1
specification. We really need to have this in the spec.
I dropped [1] given that [2] is landing shortly to IETF draft process,
according to James Bottomley [3]. We will return to [1] as soon as draft
process is open for comments. Still, that attribute is super important,
and here is why.
This will cause a overhead as tpm2_unseal_trusted needs to do an
unnecessary (from pure technical perspective) TPM2_ReadPublic command to
acquire TPM name of the parent. This is obviously known at the time of
creation of a key but the information is not stored anywhere by the
key format.
It also aligns badly with TCG specifications as Table 6 of architecture
spec explicitly defines a reference (or name) for transient keys,
persistent keys and NV indexes to be TPM_ALG_ID concatenated together
with the hash of TPMT_PUBLIC. I.e. the file format is using exactly
the opposite what should be use as reference for keys than what it
should use.
Other benefits are of course auto-discovery of parent for a key file,
which is nasty to do without the name pre-stored.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20251207173210.93765-3-jarkko@kernel.org/
[2] https://www.hansenpartnership.com/draft-bottomley-tpm2-keys.txt
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/89d90617ba9b7a5eff1d5fad6bb9773033d3c18c.camel@HansenPartnership.com/
Jarkko Sakkinen (3):
tpm2-sessions: Define TPM2_NAME_MAX_SIZE
KEYS: trusted: Re-orchestrate tpm2_read_public() calls
tpm2-sessions: Remove AUTH_MAX_NAMES
drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c | 3 +-
drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-sessions.c | 116 ++++++--------------
include/linux/tpm.h | 19 +++-
security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c | 124 ++++++++++++++--------
4 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)
--
2.39.5
next reply other threads:[~2025-12-08 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-08 5:06 Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2025-12-08 5:06 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] tpm2-sessions: Define TPM2_NAME_MAX_SIZE Jarkko Sakkinen
2025-12-08 5:06 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] KEYS: trusted: Re-orchestrate tpm2_read_public() calls Jarkko Sakkinen
2025-12-08 5:06 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] tpm2-sessions: Remove AUTH_MAX_NAMES Jarkko Sakkinen
2025-12-08 5:15 ` [PATCH v7 0/3] Optimize tpm2_read_public() calls Jarkko Sakkinen
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