Re: [PATCH 01/23] TPM: Add new TPMs to the tail of the list to prevent inadvertent change of dev

Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-08-24T09:58:08Z

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 12:30:04PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 04:56:56PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Add newly registered TPMs to the tail of the list, not the beginning, so that
> > things that are specifying TPM_ANY_NUM don't find that the device they're
> > using has inadvertently changed. Adding a second device would break IMA, for
> > instance.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
> > cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > ---
>
> We really should apply this patch...
>
> Jason

This is the first time I remember seeing it.

/Jarkko