linux-kernel - Re: [tpmdd-devel] [RFC] tpm2-space: add handling for global session exhaustion

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Date:   Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:33:04 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Dr. Greg Wettstein" <greg@...ellic.com>
Cc:     Ken Goldman <kgold@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [RFC] tpm2-space: add handling for global session
 exhaustion

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 02:06:42PM -0600, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote:
> Just as an aside, has anyone given any thought about TPM2 resource
> management in things like TXT/tboot environments?  The current tboot
> code makes a rather naive assumption that it can take a handle slot to
> protect its platform verification secret.  Doing resource management
> correctly will require addressing extra-OS environments such as this
> which may have TPM2 state requirement issues.

The current implementation handles stuff created from regular /dev/tpm0
so I do not think this would be an issue. You can only access objects
from a TPM space that are created within that space.

/Jarkko