linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Have IMA find and use a tpm

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Message-ID: <cfa499cd0a663517d17ede0206ad98a2b0d350e9.camel@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:21:26 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     jgg@...pe.ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Have IMA find and use a tpm_chip until system
 shutdown

On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 11:20 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 11:19 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 06:43 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > > This series of patches converts IMA's usage of the tpm_chip to find a TPM
> > > chip initially and use it until the machine is shut down. To do this we
> > > need
> > > to introduce a kref for the tpm_chip that IMA and all other users of a
> > > tpm_chip hold onto until they don't need the TPM chip anymore.
> > > 
> > >     Stefan
> > > 
> > > v3->v4:
> > >   - followed Jason's suggestions
> > 
> > "Jason's suggestions" means nothing.
> 
> Please fix the change log for the next version.

You should probably resend this version as also linu-security-module
is missing. NAK because of that.

/Jarkko