Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] tpm: expose spaces via a device link /dev/tpms<n>

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 03:29:15PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 11:11 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 07:39:22PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > 
> > > > I think therefore that tpmns<n> for TPM Namespace would be very
> > > > appropriate.
> > > 
> > > Makes sense. We can go with tpmns.
> > 
> > When we have talked about TPM namespaces in the past it has been
> > around the idea of restricting which TPMs the namespace has access 
> > too and changing the 'kernel tpm' for that namespace.
> 
> Well, you know, nothing in the TPM Space code prevents us from exposing
> the namespace so that it could be shared.  However, I think the
> namespace follows connect (device open) paradigm is pretty much the
> behaviour everyone (including the kernel) wants, mostly because TPM2
> has such a tiny amount of resources that you're always dealing with
> loadable keys meaning you don't really want to see anyone else's
> volatile state.

I'm not arguing with that use model, I am asking what do you want to
call the future feature that restricts which TPMs a process can view
if you want to use the word namespace for the resource manager?

This is something Stephen B has been exploring in conjunction with
vtpm. (eg restrict a container to only use a single vtpm and ban it
from the system tpm)

Jason