Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix a race condition tpm2_unseal_trusted()

From	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix a race condition tpm2_unseal_trusted()
Date	2016-08-09 17:50 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 01:36:29PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:

> Functionally my patch should not break anything. I understand the need
> for clean up of locking but why doing this now to make the driver
> non-racy would make clean up later on any harder?

Then rename the functions so they don't confusingly look like the
standard kernel pattern that doesn't lock.

Jason

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Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix a race condition tpm2_unseal_trusted() Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-08-09 12:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] tpm: fix a race condition tpm2_unseal_trusted() Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> - 2016-08-09 17:50 +0200

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