linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] Multi-instance vTPM proxy driver

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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:24:33 +0300
From:	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] Multi-instance vTPM proxy driver

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 06:54:30PM -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 driver is based on a recent checkout of James Morris's 'next'
> branch and uses several recently posted patches from Jason and Jarkko.

I don't remember if I said this but up to the IDR patch I merged patches
to next (at the same day you sent this) so for v9 you can only include
top four changes.

/Jarkko

>    Stefan
> 
> v7->v8:
>  - minor tweaks on the documentation
>  - Reordered function calls in the VTPM proxy driver's server side release
>    function so that a client holding the 'ops' lock releases it before the
>    driver tries to grab the lock when unregistering the device.
> 
> v6->v7:
>  - Adjusted name of driver to tpm_vtpm_proxy from tpm_vtpm. Adjust function
>    names, names of structures, and names of constants.
>  - Adjusted IOCTL to use magic 0xa1 rather than the completely used 0xa0.
>  - Extended driver documentation and added documentation of ioctl.
>  - Moved test program to own project (dropped patch 11).
> 
> v5->v6:
>  - Adapted errno's for unsupported flags and ioctls following Jason's
>    comments
> 
> v4->v5:
>  - Introduced different error codes for unsupported flags and ioctls
>  - Added documentation patch
> 
> 
> Jason Gunthorpe (4):
>   tpm: Get rid of chip->pdev
>   tpm: Get rid of devname
>   tpm: Provide strong locking for device removal
>   tpm: Split out the devm stuff from tpmm_chip_alloc
> 
> Stefan Berger (6):
>   tpm: Get rid of module locking
>   tpm: Replace device number bitmap with IDR
>   tpm: Introduce TPM_CHIP_FLAG_VIRTUAL
>   tpm: Proxy driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs
>   tpm: Initialize TPM and get durations and timeouts
>   tpm: Add documentation for the tpm_vtpm device driver
> 
>  Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt |   1 +
>  Documentation/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.txt |  71 ++++
>  drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig             |  10 +
>  drivers/char/tpm/Makefile            |   1 +
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-chip.c          | 221 ++++++++----
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-dev.c           |  15 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-interface.c     |  50 +--
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c         |  22 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h               |  30 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c          |   8 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_atmel.c         |  14 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog.c      |   2 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_eventlog.h      |   2 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_atmel.c     |  16 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon.c  |   6 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_i2c_nuvoton.c   |  24 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_infineon.c      |  22 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c           |  20 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_tis.c           |  18 +-
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.c    | 649 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/Kbuild            |   1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/vtpm_proxy.h      |  42 +++
>  22 files changed, 1066 insertions(+), 179 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.c
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/vtpm_proxy.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.4.3
>