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Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality prepended to command

From Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality prepended to command
Date 2017-05-04 11:30 +0200
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On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 07:40:48PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 05/03/2017 06:37 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:02:18AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > > Add an ioctl to request that the locality be prepended to every TPM
> > > command.
> > Don't really understand this change. Why locality is prenpended?
> 
> Commands can be executed under locality 0-3 and for some commands it is
> important to know which locality a user may have chosen. How else should we
> convey that locality to the TPM emulator ?

Why this is not in the commit message?

More scalable way to do this would be to have a set of vtpm proxy
commands. There could be a command for requesting and releasing
locality. That would be more clean.

/Jarkko

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[PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality prepended to command Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-28 15:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-04-29 09:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-04 00:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-04 01:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-04 11:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-04 13:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-04 20:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-04 22:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-09 01:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-09 17:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-10 15:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-10 15:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Add ioctl to request locality  prepended to command Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-05-10 20:40 +0200

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