On 3/6/2017 7:55 AM, Chris Hawkins wrote:
> Pritha,
>
> What I believe you are observing is that the PCRs are being reset on
> boot, but are being extended as expected by the BIOS/UEFI (PCRs 0-7) and
> the OS (PCRs 8-15). It's rare to find a platform that can enable and
> activate a TPM but it's not configured to extend PCRs on boot. GRUB is
> also TPM aware, and will also extend PCRs. Because your boot environment
> rarely changes, the extended PCR values will generally be identical
> after every boot. Update a BIOS revision, and you'll see these change.
> Not many other things will affect a change. These unchanging values may
> imply that the PCRs are never being reset, but they almost certainly
> are. They are just being extended by measurement of the same, unchanging
> things, on every boot.

I don't think that's the issue.  Note that the poster extended PCR0, 
rebooted, and got the new value.  If it was the BIOS/UEFI, it would go 
back to the old value.



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