From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kent Yoder <shpedoikal@gmail.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Peter Huewe <peter.huewe@infineon.com>,
Bryan Freed <bfreed@chromium.org>,
David Safford <safford@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] New TPM driver, hwrng driver and fixes
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:52:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5016F429.9030800@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120730205116.GA22156@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 07/30/2012 01:51 PM, Kent Yoder wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps we should just do the same "err = total ? total : -EIO;" here
>>> and the above statement can just turn into a break;.
>>
>> Yeah, this seems like the right thing to do.
>>
>>>> - ret = my_get_random(hash, SHA1_DIGEST_SIZE);
>>>> + ret = tpm_get_random(TPM_ANY_NUM, hash, SHA1_DIGEST_SIZE);
>>>> if (ret < 0)
>>>> return ret;
>>>
>>> You are still not checking the return values correctly!
>>
>> Dave, can you weigh in on these individual cases? In some cases
>> like capping a pcr I think using uninitialized stack data could be
>> better than failing...
>
> I got in touch with Dave today, who'd like the full checking done now
> that we can. Here's a new patch, let me know what you think...
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-30 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-27 18:14 [GIT PULL] New TPM driver, hwrng driver and fixes Kent Yoder
2012-07-27 18:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-07-27 19:36 ` Kent Yoder
2012-07-27 20:30 ` Kent Yoder
2012-07-27 22:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-07-28 0:45 ` Kent Yoder
2012-07-30 20:51 ` Kent Yoder
2012-07-30 20:52 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-08-13 20:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-14 16:37 ` Kent Yoder
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