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From: Prakhar Srivastava <prsriva@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Add a layer of abstraction to use the memory reserved by device tree for ima buffer pass.
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 13:34:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b8bb74b-a3ac-1eb8-4b21-d00402a2bf62@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200512230954.GB2654@bogus>



On 5/12/20 4:09 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 01:38:28PM -0700, Prakhar Srivastava wrote:
>> Introduce a device tree layer for to read and store ima buffer
>> from the reserved memory section of a device tree.
> 
> But why do I need 'a layer of abstraction'? I don't like them.
> 
This is a common path for the all architectures to carry over the
IMA measurement logs. A single layer will avoid any code duplication.

>> Signed-off-by: Prakhar Srivastava <prsriva@linux.microsoft.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/of/Kconfig  |   6 ++
>>   drivers/of/Makefile |   1 +
>>   drivers/of/of_ima.c | 165 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Who are the users of this code and why does it need to be here? Most
> code for specific bindings are not in drivers/of/ but with the user. It
> doesn't sound like there's more than 1 user.
> 
Currently the path is exercised by arm64 kexec_file_load path. A slight
restructuring is needed on the powerpc side to use the same code path 
and other architectures can follow to add carrying over IMA logs over
kexec with just a few function calls.

I have attempted to bring the code path down to the highest common 
layer, however please do suggest if i can move this some where else.

Thanks,
Prakhar

>>   include/linux/of.h  |  34 +++++++++
>>   4 files changed, 206 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/of/of_ima.c

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-18 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-04 20:38 [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Add support for using reserved memory for ima buffer pass Prakhar Srivastava
2020-05-04 20:38 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Add a layer of abstraction to use the memory reserved by device tree " Prakhar Srivastava
2020-05-12 23:09   ` Rob Herring
2020-05-18 20:34     ` Prakhar Srivastava [this message]
2020-05-04 20:38 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] Add support for ima buffer pass using reserved memory arm64 Prakhar Srivastava
2020-05-05  9:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Add support for using reserved memory for ima buffer pass Mark Rutland
2020-05-07  5:50   ` Prakhar Srivastava
2020-05-12 23:05     ` Rob Herring
2020-05-18 20:16       ` Prakhar Srivastava
2020-05-23  4:08         ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2020-06-01  4:05           ` Prakhar Srivastava

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