about context gap

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

Hi

While sitting at the airport I started to think a bit about the context
gap issue.

I think first thing that would make sense would be to have a 64-bit
shadow count for every TPM space i.e.

atomic_long_t tpm2_ctx_cnt;

struct tpm2_space {
	/* ... */
	u64 ctx_cnt;
};

For every create and load of a session you will read the global count
and increase it. This way we have get a well defined order.

With this organization we could for example put tpm spaces to a
red-black tree and refresh the oldest tpm space (just first thought
that came to mind).

PS. While doing LPC and LSS slides I found error from the TPM 2.0
commands specification. TPM2_ContextSave can never emit
TPM2_RC_CONTEXT_GAP albeit the specification says so.

/Jarkko
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