From: jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com (Jarkko Sakkinen)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality prepended to command
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 12:17:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170504091738.rxl77hjzf6vnpuda@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40cd7d48-f6d1-39f4-99a3-916c7cdbb636@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 07:40:48PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 05/03/2017 06:37 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:02:18AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > > Add an ioctl to request that the locality be prepended to every TPM
> > > command.
> > Don't really understand this change. Why locality is prenpended?
>
> Commands can be executed under locality 0-3 and for some commands it is
> important to know which locality a user may have chosen. How else should we
> convey that locality to the TPM emulator ?
Why this is not in the commit message?
More scalable way to do this would be to have a set of vtpm proxy
commands. There could be a command for requesting and releasing
locality. That would be more clean.
/Jarkko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-04 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-28 13:02 [PATCH v2 0/3] Extend the vTPM proxy driver to pass locality to emulator Stefan Berger
2017-04-28 13:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to get supported flags Stefan Berger
2017-05-03 22:31 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-04-28 13:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Implement request_locality Stefan Berger
2017-04-28 13:02 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality prepended to command Stefan Berger
2017-04-29 7:02 ` kbuild test robot
2017-05-03 22:37 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-05-03 23:40 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-04 9:17 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2017-05-04 11:14 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-04 18:40 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-05-04 20:03 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-08 23:43 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-05-09 15:49 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-10 12:47 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-05-10 13:20 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-10 18:33 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-04-29 11:58 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Extend the vTPM proxy driver to pass locality to emulator Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-05-03 22:38 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-05-03 23:42 ` Stefan Berger
2017-05-04 9:18 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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