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From: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: fix ima kconfig warning
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:27:47 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120227202747.GA2973@hardened-box.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F47E4C5.7060706@xenotime.net>

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
> 
> Fix IMA kconfig warning on non-X86 architectures:
> 
> warning: (IMA) selects TCG_TIS which has unmet direct dependencies
> (TCG_TPM && X86)
> 
> But why do TCG_TIS and TCG_NSC depend on X86??
>

These drivers only support the probing for TPM devices on this platform,
through PNP or a hardcoded address base.

Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
> ---
> No IMA/TPM builds have been tested with this change...
> 
>  security/integrity/ima/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- lnx-33-rc4.orig/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig
> +++ lnx-33-rc4/security/integrity/ima/Kconfig
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ config IMA
>  	select CRYPTO_MD5
>  	select CRYPTO_SHA1
>  	select TCG_TPM if !S390 && !UML
> -	select TCG_TIS if TCG_TPM
> +	select TCG_TIS if TCG_TPM && X86
>  	help
>  	  The Trusted Computing Group(TCG) runtime Integrity
>  	  Measurement Architecture(IMA) maintains a list of hash
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-- 
Rajiv Andrade
Security Development
IBM Linux Technology Center


  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-27 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-24 19:28 [PATCH] security: fix ima kconfig warning Randy Dunlap
2012-02-27 20:27 ` Rajiv Andrade [this message]
2012-02-28  0:02 ` James Morris

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