Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: allow module init if TPM is inactive or deactivated | From | Roberto Sassu <> | Date | Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:21:16 +0200 |
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On 8/1/2019 6:32 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote: >> According to the bug report at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62678, >> the trusted module is a dependency of the ecryptfs module. We should >> load the trusted module even if the TPM is inactive or deactivated. >> >> Given that commit 782779b60faa ("tpm: Actually fail on TPM errors during >> "get random"") changes the return code of tpm_get_random(), the patch >> should be modified to ignore the -EIO error. I will send a new version. > > Do you have information where this dependency comes from?
ecryptfs retrieves the encryption key from encrypted keys (see ecryptfs_get_encrypted_key()).
Roberto
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