Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Have IMA find and use a tpm_chip until system shutdown

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Fri Jun 29 2018 - 11:02:19 EST


On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 15:13 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 15:09 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > This series of patches converts IMA's usage of the tpm_chip to find a TPM
> > chip initially and use it until the machine is shut down. To do this we need
> > to introduce a kref for the tpm_chip that IMA and all other users of a
> > tpm_chip hold onto until they don't need the TPM chip anymore.
>
> All the TPM patches are now in my tree and I just updated also the
> next branch so they should be soon available also in linux-next.

James, do you have a preference? ÂShould I merge the patches in
Jarkko's next branch or just base the integrity branch on top of it?

Mimi