From: jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com (Jason Gunthorpe)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: remove chip_num parameter from in-kernel API
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:37:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171024173757.GA1806@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKdAkRT9sLux6S1qdd=j0nbXSBdnYGG_hvjny=ic0YJLVNnxzA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:02:00AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> tpm-rng is abomination that should be kicked out as soon as possible.
> It wrecks havoc with the power management (TPM chip drivers may go
> into suspend state, but tpm_rng does not do any power management and
> happily forwards requests to suspended hardware) and may be available
> when there is no TPM at all yet (the drivers have not been probed yet,
> or have gotten a deferral, etc).
Makes sense
> TPM core should register HWRNGs when chips are ready.
The main thing I've wanted from the TPM RNG is
'add_early_randomness'..
We can certainly provide a TPM interface to hwrng, it seems
reasonable.
Excep that we already have a user api in /dev/tpm to access the
tpm RNG, is the duplication a problem?
Jason
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-24 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-23 12:38 [PATCH] tpm: remove chip_num parameter from in-kernel API Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-23 14:07 ` [tpmdd-devel] " Stefan Berger
2017-10-23 16:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-10-24 15:44 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-24 15:51 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-10-24 15:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-10-24 16:07 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-10-24 16:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-10-24 16:14 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-10-24 17:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-10-24 17:56 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-10-24 17:02 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-10-24 17:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2017-10-24 17:44 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-10-24 18:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-10-24 18:15 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-24 18:40 ` Peter Huewe
2017-10-24 16:23 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-24 16:35 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-10-24 18:22 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-25 14:51 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-10-25 19:11 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-26 16:23 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-10-24 14:04 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-24 18:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-10-24 22:27 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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