[PATCH v6 02/12] tpm-buf: add handling for TPM2B types
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com
Wed Sep 25 12:34:57 UTC 2019
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 03:34:01PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 07:12:40AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > I thought about that. The main problem is that most of the
> > construct/append functions use the header, and these are the functions
> > most useful to the TPM2B operation.
> >
> > The other thing that argues against this is that the TPM2B case would
> > save nothing if we eliminated the header, because we allocate a page
> > for all the data regardless.
>
> It would be way more clean. There is absolutely nothing TPM2B specific.
Given the recent regression I'm detaching allocation from tpm_buf and
make it purely a decorator (sending patch today).
/Jarkko
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