[PATCH v10 00/17] Remove nested TPM operations

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com
Tue Jan 29 12:31:11 UTC 2019


On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 01:53:44PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 1/23/19 1:20 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:23:25PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > Make the changes necessary to detach TPM space code and TPM activation
> > > code out of the tpm_transmit() flow because of both of these can cause
> > > nested tpm_transmit() calls. The nesteds calls make the whole flow hard
> > > to maintain, and thus, it is better to just fix things now before this
> > > turns into a bigger mess.
> > Any reasons not to merge this soon?
> 
> I suppose v10 hasn't changed anything signinficat. So, not from my
> perspective. Were you waiting for more Reviewed-by's?

Yeah, for example TPM space touching changes would be good to peer
check with James. I could have easily forgotten some implementation
detail, and it has been very stable piece off code, so don't want
to break it. Guess won't yet try to put this v5.1.

/Jarkko



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