Re: [tpmdd-devel] [RFC] tpm2-space: add handling for global session exhaustion
From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Thu Feb 16 2017 - 15:33:14 EST
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 02:06:42PM -0600, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote:
> Just as an aside, has anyone given any thought about TPM2 resource
> management in things like TXT/tboot environments? The current tboot
> code makes a rather naive assumption that it can take a handle slot to
> protect its platform verification secret. Doing resource management
> correctly will require addressing extra-OS environments such as this
> which may have TPM2 state requirement issues.
The current implementation handles stuff created from regular /dev/tpm0
so I do not think this would be an issue. You can only access objects
from a TPM space that are created within that space.
/Jarkko