From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755973AbdEDRbp (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2017 13:31:45 -0400 Received: from quartz.orcorp.ca ([184.70.90.242]:45401 "EHLO quartz.orcorp.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752221AbdEDRbi (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2017 13:31:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 11:31:30 -0600 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: Stefan Berger Cc: tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Implement new ioctl to get supported flags Message-ID: <20170504173130.GA20449@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1493909787-1848-1-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1493909787-1848-2-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20170504153416.GA15930@obsidianresearch.com> <56703d75-b238-0bad-386a-5b6963e250a1@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20170504172042.GA19932@obsidianresearch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name found for IP address 10.0.0.156 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 01:28:17PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > >So allowing request_locality to fail from userspace seems reasonable. > > What's the best interface to use for this ? If locality support is enabled then send a request locality packet to userspace and block until return, just like command execution? Jason