From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>,
Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2,RESEND] tpm: Detach page allocation from tpm_buf
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 20:03:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191002170253.GA9634@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191002104530.7679-1-jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 01:45:30PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> As has been seen recently, binding the buffer allocation and tpm_buf
> together is sometimes far from optimal. The buffer might come from the
> caller namely when tpm_send() is used by another subsystem. In addition we
> can stability in call sites w/o rollback (e.g. power events)>
>
> Take allocation out of the tpm_buf framework and make it purely a wrapper
> for the data buffer.
OK, so the reason that the fix for the CC was not included, was that
it was in my staging area. I had not amended it :-/
/Jarkko
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2019-10-02 10:45 [PATCH v2,RESEND] tpm: Detach page allocation from tpm_buf Jarkko Sakkinen
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