From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 17:12:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] docs: update trusted-encrypted.rst Message-Id: <1597597933.8344.13.camel@linux.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: References: <20200815075143.47082-1-colyli@suse.de> <1597595769.8344.7.camel@linux.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: To: Coly Li Cc: Stefan Berger , keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams , Jarkko Sakkinen , Mimi Zohar On Mon, 2020-08-17 at 00:57 +0800, Coly Li wrote: > On 2020/8/17 00:36, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-08-16 at 12:06 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote: > > [...] > > > A note in this file states this: > > > > > > Note: When using a TPM 2.0 with a persistent key with handle > > > 0x81000001, append 'keyhandle=0x81000001' to statements between > > > quotes, such as "new 32 keyhandle=0x81000001". > > > > > > Now if someone was (still) interested in TPM 1.2 > > > adapt the note to state that these keyhandle=... should be > > > removed for the TPM 1.2 case. > > > > Actually, I also have a plan to match what userspace does and > > simply assume a keyhandle of 40000001 (generate an EC Storage > > Primary Key on the fly) if it's not specified, which will make the > > TPM1.2 and 2.0 versions of this the same. Unfortunately the > > necessary precursor patches are taking an age to get upstream. > > Hi James, > > Do you have a plan to push such patches into upstream soon? If yes > than I may wait for your patch and withdraw this one. Well, as I said above it depends on not yet upstream precursor patches. They have been pending for about a year, so I've no real idea of the timeline. James