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From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgg@ziepe.ca,
	mingo@redhat.com, jeffrin@rajagiritech.edu.in,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, will@kernel.org,
	peterhuewe@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH =v2 3/3] tpm: selftest: cleanup after unseal with wrong auth/policy test
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:49:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3bffb8c-d454-1f53-7f7e-8b65884ffaf6@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1576180263.10287.4.camel@HansenPartnership.com>

On 12/12/19 11:51 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> TPM2_Clear reprovisions the SPS ... that would make all currently
> exported TPM keys go invalid.  I know these tests should be connected
> to a vTPM, so doing this should be safe, but if this accidentally got
> executed on your laptop all TPM relying functions would be disrupted,
> which doesn't seem to be the best thing to hard wire into a test.

That is true, but it will need to be executed as root, and root
should know what she/he is doing ;)

> 
> What about doing a TPM2_DictionaryAttackLockReset instead, which is the
> least invasive route to fixing the problem ... provided you know what
> the lockout authorization is.

I can change tpm2_clear to tpm2_dictionarylockout -c if we want to make
it foolproof. In this case we can assume that the lockout auth is empty.

-- 
Tadeusz

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-12 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-12 17:48 [PATCH =v2 1/3] tpm: fix invalid locking in NONBLOCKING mode Tadeusz Struk
2019-12-12 17:48 ` [PATCH =v2 2/3] tpm: selftest: add test covering async mode Tadeusz Struk
2019-12-17  1:55   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-12-12 17:48 ` [PATCH =v2 3/3] tpm: selftest: cleanup after unseal with wrong auth/policy test Tadeusz Struk
2019-12-12 19:51   ` James Bottomley
2019-12-12 20:49     ` Tadeusz Struk [this message]
2019-12-12 20:54       ` James Bottomley
2019-12-12 21:07         ` Tadeusz Struk
2019-12-12 21:11           ` James Bottomley
2019-12-17 10:37       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-12-17  1:32 ` [PATCH =v2 1/3] tpm: fix invalid locking in NONBLOCKING mode Jarkko Sakkinen

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