Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jan 2017 02:37:30 +0200 | From | Jarkko Sakkinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 4/4] tpm: add the infrastructure for TPM space for TPM 2.0 |
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On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 02:09:53PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 03:22:10PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > Added a ioctl for creating a TPM space. The space is isolated from the > > other users of the TPM. Only a process holding the file with the handle > > can access the objects and only objects that are created through that > > file handle can be accessed. > > I don't understand this comment. /dev/tpmX is forced to be > single-process-open, so how can there ever be more than 1 FD for it? > > Since the space is tied to that single fd these patches just create a > way for the single user-space process to auto-cleanup if it crashes? > > Is that the entire intent of this design? I guess it is OK as a > stepping point..
is_open is cleared in tpm_ioc_new_space.
/Jarkko
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