From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga07.intel.com ([134.134.136.100]:45470 "EHLO mga07.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755206AbeF2MNP (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:13:15 -0400 Message-ID: <285d705b92b2f3a9351ac31b2e25ad36cb47204a.camel@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Have IMA find and use a tpm_chip until system shutdown From: Jarkko Sakkinen To: Stefan Berger , linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: jgg@ziepe.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:13:09 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20180626190933.2508821-1-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20180626190933.2508821-1-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-integrity-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 15:09 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > This series of patches converts IMA's usage of the tpm_chip to find a TPM > chip initially and use it until the machine is shut down. To do this we need > to introduce a kref for the tpm_chip that IMA and all other users of a > tpm_chip hold onto until they don't need the TPM chip anymore. All the TPM patches are now in my tree and I just updated also the next branch so they should be soon available also in linux-next. /Jarkko