linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Have IMA find and use a tpm

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Message-Id: <70d1e3ae-eebd-9ffc-5c28-79bf0e295bda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:27:16 -0400
From:   Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     jgg@...pe.ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Have IMA find and use a tpm_chip until system
 shutdown

On 06/29/2018 08:13 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 15:09 -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.
> All the TPM patches are now in my tree and I just updated also the
> next branch so they should be soon available also in linux-next.
Thanks.

   Stefan
> /Jarkko
>