[PATCH v6 00/12] add integrity and security to TPM2 transactions

James Bottomley James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com
Tue Sep 10 16:29:38 UTC 2019


On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 17:21 +0100, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 01:16:48PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> > Link to previous cover letter:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/1540193596.3202.7.camel@Han
> > senPartnership.com/
> > 
> > This is marked v6 instead of v5 because I did a v5 after feedback
> > on v4
> > but didn't get around to posting it and then had to rework the
> > whole of
> > the kernel space handling while I was on holiday.  I also added the
> > documentation of how the whole thing works and the rationale for
> > doing
> > it in tpm-security.rst (patch 11).  The main reason for doing this
> > now
> > is so we have something to discuss at Plumbers.
> > 
> > The new patch set implements the various splits requested, but the
> > main
> > changes are that the kernel space is gone and is replaced by a
> > context
> > save and restore of the generated null seed.  This is easier to
> > handle
> > than a full kernel space given the new threading for TPM spaces,
> > but
> > conceptually it is still very like a space.  I've also made whether
> > integrity and encryption is turned on a Kconfig option.
> > 
> > James
> 
> So... is there a changelog for the revisions?

Well, yes, standard way: they're in the individual patches under the '-
--' prefixed with v6:

James



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