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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@selhorst.net>,
	"moderated list:TPM DEVICE DRIVER" 
	<tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix a race condition tpm2_unseal_trusted()
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:48:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160720164818.GA21460@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1468973792-17598-1-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 03:16:32AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Unseal and load operations should be done as an atomic unit. This
> commit fixes the issue by moving TPM mutex handling to tpm_try_get_ops()
> and tpm_put_ops(), which is probably more logical place for it anyway.

No..

'get_ops' is to be used to hold a persisent kref to a single tpm. It
cannot block other tpm access.

Eg a upper protocol might get_ops to for a long period to ensure it
consistently talks to the same TPM in a multi-tpm system.

We need something else to solve whatever you are concerned with
here..

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-20 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-20  0:16 [PATCH] tpm: fix a race condition tpm2_unseal_trusted() Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-07-20 16:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2016-07-20 20:53   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-07-20 21:13     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-07-21  9:02       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-07-21 16:25         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-08-09 10:36           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-08-09 15:49             ` Jason Gunthorpe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-16 19:38 Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-08-17  4:31 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-08-24  0:57 Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-08-24  1:32 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-08-25 18:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-08-25 21:06   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2016-08-25 21:09     ` Jason Gunthorpe

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