On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 07:53:22AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-02-16 at 21:25 +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > Added an ability to virtualize TPM commands into an isolated context
> > that we call a TPM space because the word context is already heavily
> > used in the TPM specification. Both the handle areas and bodies
> > (where
> > necessary) are virtualized.
> > 
> > The mechanism works by adding a new parameter struct tpm_space to the
> > tpm_transmit() function. This new structure contains the list of
> > virtual
> > handles and a buffer of page size (currently) for backing storage.
> > 
> > When tpm_transmit() is called with a struct tpm_space instance it
> > will
> > execute the following sequence:
> > 
> > 1. Take locks.
> > 2. Load transient objects from the backing storage by using
> > ContextLoad
> >    and map virtual handles to physical handles.
> > 3. Perform the transaction.
> > 4. Save transient objects to backing storage by using ContextSave and
> >    map resulting physical handle to virtual handle if there is such.
> > 
> > This commit does not implement virtualization support for hmac and
> > policy sessions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]>
> 
> For patches 1-4 you can add 
> 
> Reviewed-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
> 
> Just re-running a build with the latest kernel for my laptop to add
> tested by.
> 
> James

Thank you!

/Jarkko

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