On 05/04/2017 02:40 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 07:14:27AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: >> On 05/04/2017 05:17 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: >>> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 07:40:48PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: >>>> On 05/03/2017 06:37 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:02:18AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: >>>>>> Add an ioctl to request that the locality be prepended to every TPM >>>>>> command. >>>>> Don't really understand this change. Why locality is prenpended? >>>> Commands can be executed under locality 0-3 and for some commands it is >>>> important to know which locality a user may have chosen. How else should we >>>> convey that locality to the TPM emulator ? >>> Why this is not in the commit message? >>> >>> More scalable way to do this would be to have a set of vtpm proxy >>> commands. There could be a command for requesting and releasing >>> locality. That would be more clean. >> I would think that if someone wanted to use locality it's the client using >> /dev/tpm(rm)0 calling an ioctl or so and the vtpm proxy then merely passing >> that locality to the backend (TPM emulator). I suppose the intention is to >> support something like that following the addition of the new functions >> request_locality and release_locality? > What if we later on want to pass something else than locality to the > backend? How that will work out?
'push' more data in front. 'pop' off by recipient. We could wrap the command in some form. Stefan > > /Jarkko > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-security-module" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ tpmdd-devel mailing list tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tpmdd-devel