From: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com>,
Serge Hallyn <serue@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] integrity: TPM internel kernel interface
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:33:23 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223472803.5742.21.camel@blackbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0810081556390.13169@tundra.namei.org>
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 16:00 +1100, James Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Mimi Zohar wrote:
>
> > Based on discussions on the lkml mailing list, the TPM should be
> > built in, but when it is not builtin, the internal TPM kernel
> > interface did not protect itself from the removal of the TPM
> > driver, while being used.
>
> If the TPM driver should be built in, why is there an option to make it
> modular?
>
> - James
Hi James,
It's recommended that the TPM driver should be built-in when using IMA to make sure
it's measuring the system as closely as possible to the start of the boot process,
but it's not necessarily true when using it to store keys, for example.
Rajiv
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-08 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 18:00 [PATCH 0/4] integrity Mimi Zohar
2008-10-07 18:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] integrity: TPM internel kernel interface Mimi Zohar
2008-10-08 5:00 ` James Morris
2008-10-08 13:33 ` Rajiv Andrade [this message]
2008-10-07 18:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] integrity: special fs magic Mimi Zohar
2008-10-08 13:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-08 15:07 ` Mimi Zohar
2008-10-07 18:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] integrity: Linux Integrity Module(LIM) Mimi Zohar
2008-10-07 18:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] integrity: IMA as an integrity service provider Mimi Zohar
2008-10-08 4:56 ` [PATCH 0/4] integrity James Morris
2008-10-08 14:19 ` Mimi Zohar
2008-10-08 22:06 ` James Morris
2008-10-10 14:16 ` Mimi Zohar
2008-10-10 22:15 ` James Morris
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-20 16:43 Mimi Zohar
2008-11-20 16:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] integrity: TPM internel kernel interface Mimi Zohar
2008-11-13 3:47 [PATCH 0/4] integrity Mimi Zohar
2008-11-13 3:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] integrity: TPM internel kernel interface Mimi Zohar
[not found] <20080808184349.999902616@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-08-08 18:55 ` Mimi Zohar
2008-08-09 18:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-11 21:13 ` Mimi Zohar
2008-08-12 19:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-12 20:57 ` Kenneth Goldman
2008-08-12 21:36 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-13 13:46 ` Kenneth Goldman
2008-08-13 13:40 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-13 14:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-13 16:39 ` Kenneth Goldman
2008-08-12 23:16 ` Greg KH
2008-08-13 13:58 ` Kenneth Goldman
2008-08-13 16:56 ` Mimi Zohar
2008-08-14 11:12 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-15 10:37 ` Peter Dolding
2008-08-15 18:50 ` Kenneth Goldman
2008-08-15 19:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-08-15 21:17 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-18 15:01 ` Kenneth Goldman
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