linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 3/9] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios

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Message-ID: <20161125080838.mpzflnz7epo6wv6g@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:08:38 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc:     Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, peterhuewe@....de,
        tpmdd@...horst.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/9] tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir with
 a static array

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 09:53:13AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 03:57:23PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > I manually added the changes to:
> > 
> >   tpm: replace dynamically allocated bios_dir with a static array
> 
> For this patch..
> 
> Could drop 'int rc' from tpm1_chip_register, but it will come back in
> a later patch
> 
> Could dump TPM_NUM_EVENT_LOG_FILES and just use
> ARRAY_SIZE(chip->bios_dir)

Not a bug fix. Happy take a patch after the pull request.

> Now the the stub for tpm_bios_log_setup can properly return -ENODEV
> 
> This is no good at this point in the series - we need the ENODEV
> detection in tpm_chip_register() from the 'Fix handle of missing event
> log' moved into this patch, because it now returns ENODEV due to
> sercurityfs

Sure it would be cleaner but not really necessary. Do you really think
this is mandatory? No matter how I reorder patches this will require
time and effort to fix various merge conflicts because of the replacemnt
of event log. After that I have to test everything.

Not doing this for light reasons...

> The commit 'tpm: vtpm_proxy: Do not access host's event log' still
> needs a proper commit message - it doesn't match what the patch is
> doing at all.

The commit message otherwise great except for the short summary, which
is now fixed.

> If you are going to be editing the patches I'd suggest squashing all
> the bug fix ones with proper credit so it at least makes sense to
> read..
> 
> Jason

I do not have interest to edit patches more than I have to.

/Jarkko