linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5 V2] tpm: timeouts revamp

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Message-ID: <1520338622.3779.1.camel@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:17:02 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5 V2] tpm: timeouts revamp

On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 11:24 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> This series cleans up tpm timeouts setting and handling.
> 
> First motivation was to fix failures coming from too short timeouts
> for commands that creates keys.
> Key generation may take significant time depending on the underlying
> hardware. Rather than increasing default timeout a new constant is
> added, to not stall too long on regular commands failures.
> 
> Second is to define timeouts for new tpm2 commands
> defined in TCG 1.36 spec.

Where can we get that specification? I don't have that new
version and couldn't find it from the public internet.

/Jarkko