From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com (Jason Gunthorpe) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:37:57 -0600 Subject: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: remove chip_num parameter from in-kernel API In-Reply-To: References: <20171023123817.18559-1-jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> <20171023163139.GA17394@obsidianresearch.com> <20171024154440.3jeupmus43jcgbbz@linux.intel.com> <20171024155526.GA32250@obsidianresearch.com> <20171024161118.GA348@obsidianresearch.com> Message-ID: <20171024173757.GA1806@obsidianresearch.com> To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-security-module.vger.kernel.org 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html