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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: about context gap
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 08:36:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170916153540.w5lpsqz3cwpd3enx@linux.intel.com> (raw)

Hi

While sitting at the airport I started to think a bit about the context
gap issue.

I think first thing that would make sense would be to have a 64-bit
shadow count for every TPM space i.e.

atomic_long_t tpm2_ctx_cnt;

struct tpm2_space {
	/* ... */
	u64 ctx_cnt;
};

For every create and load of a session you will read the global count
and increase it. This way we have get a well defined order.

With this organization we could for example put tpm spaces to a
red-black tree and refresh the oldest tpm space (just first thought
that came to mind).

PS. While doing LPC and LSS slides I found error from the TPM 2.0
commands specification. TPM2_ContextSave can never emit
TPM2_RC_CONTEXT_GAP albeit the specification says so.

/Jarkko

             reply	other threads:[~2017-09-16 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-16 15:36 Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2017-09-18 18:02 ` about context gap Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-09-26 18:46   ` Ken Goldman
2017-09-26 19:10 ` Ken Goldman

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