From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarkko Sakkinen Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH v11 0/4] Multi-instance vTPM proxy driver Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:28:07 +0300 Message-ID: <20160426092807.GA32066@intel.com> References: <1461000376-2888-1-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20160422165427.GA24090@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160422165427.GA24090@intel.com> Sender: owner-linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org To: Stefan Berger Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 07:54:27PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 01:26:12PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > > The following series of patches implements a multi-instance vTPM > > proxy driver that can dynamically create TPM 'server' and client device > > pairs. > > > > Using an ioctl on the provided /dev/vtpmx, a client-side vTPM device > > and a server side file descriptor is created. The file descriptor must > > be passed to a TPM emulator. The device driver will initialize the > > emulated TPM using TPM 1.2 or TPM 2 startup commands and it will read > > the command durations from the device in case of a TPM 1.2. The choice > > of emulated TPM device (1.2 or 2) must be provided with a flag in > > the ioctl. > > > > The patches are based on the tip of a recent checkout of Jarkko's tree > > (master branch). > > I've applied this series to my master branch. These patches have been > baking long enough in my opinion that they could be merged to next and > therefore find their way into Linux 4.7 > > Stefan, I would still require your Tested-by for the first patch before > merging because it is not as mature as other patches are. Now I have augmented Tested-by's to relevant patches and added my Signed-off-by's. I plan to merge this to the next branch tomorrow. > /Jarkko /Jarkko