On 1/25/2017 8:04 PM, James Bottomley wrote:

> This leads to a problem: we have to have access to the session context
> to pull this trick, and that means we have to disallow TPM users from
> calling ContextSave on a session otherwise they could DoS us by
> inducing an unremediable TPM_RC_CONTEXT_GAP error (simply by keeping
> the saved session and never loading it).

I think it's perfectly acceptable to block applications from calling 
context save for sessions.  I don't know of any use case that would 
require it.

(There are definitely use cases for context save on transient objects, 
but they don't have the replay / gap issue.)



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