Re: Bad file pattern in MAINTAINERS section 'KEYS-TRUSTED'

[Denis Kenzior]

Hi James,

On 03/26/2019 09:25 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> Looking at the contents of linux/keys/trusted.h, it looks like the
> wrong decision to move it.  The contents are way too improperly named
> and duplicative to be in a standard header.  It's mostly actually TPM
> code including a redefinition of the tpm_buf structure, so it doesn't
> even seem to be necessary for trusted keys.
The reason this was done was because asym_tpm.c needed a bunch of the 
same functionality already provided by trusted.c, e.g. TSS_authmac and 
friends.

> If you want to fix this as a bug, I'd move it back again, but long term
> I think it should simply be combined with trusted.c because nothing
> else can include it sanely anyway.

Ideally I'd like to see the TPM subsystem expose these functions using 
some proper API / library abstraction.  David Howells had an RFC patch 
set that tried to address some of this a while back.  Not sure if that 
went anywhere.

Regards,
-Denis