From: Bruno Meneguele <bmeneg@redhat.com>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ima-evm-utils: skip test for discrete TPM 1.2 and exec'd as normal user
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:36:26 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200624223626.GE2639@glitch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1593036848.27152.211.camel@linux.ibm.com>
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 06:14:08PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
>
> On Wed, 2020-06-24 at 18:24 -0300, Bruno Meneguele wrote:
> > boot_aggregate test make use of a software TPM 2.0 in case it doesn't find
> > any /dev/tpm0 in the system or if the test is ran as a normal user. However,
> > when the system has a discrete TPM 1.2 and the user runs the test with a
> > non-root user evmctl fails to return the software TPM 2.0 boot aggregate
> > value because it tries to access the sysfs PCRs file and, consequently, the
> > test fails.
> >
> > Supporting a software TPM 1.2 involved some more work and new dependency in
> > other programs to extend the PCRs accordingly. Because of that, just drop
> > support for this scenario for now.
>
> The problem is that the TPM 1.2 PCRs are visible to userspace.
> Insteaad of reading the software TPM PCRs, it's reading the discrete
> TPM 1.2 PCRs. I would drop this paragraph and simply say the sample
> TPM 2.0 log test is not supported on systems with a discrete TPM 1.2.
>
Ack. Will send a v2 dropping it.
> The patch itself is fine.
>
> thanks,
>
> Mimi
>
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2020-06-24 21:24 [PATCH] ima-evm-utils: skip test for discrete TPM 1.2 and exec'd as normal user Bruno Meneguele
2020-06-24 22:14 ` Mimi Zohar
2020-06-24 22:36 ` Bruno Meneguele [this message]
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