From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <jejb@linux.ibm.com>, <zohar@linux.ibm.com>, <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
<linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
<keyrings@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<crazyt2019+lml@gmail.com>, <tyhicks@canonical.com>,
<nayna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, <silviu.vlasceanu@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: allow module init if TPM is inactive or deactivated
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 10:21:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e50c4cfa-1f0c-6f4d-1910-010a8d874393@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190801163215.mfkagoafkxscesne@linux.intel.com>
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
--
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES Duesseldorf GmbH, HRB 56063
Managing Director: Li Peng, Li Jian, Shi Yanli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-02 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-05 16:37 [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: allow module init if TPM is inactive or deactivated Roberto Sassu
2019-07-08 19:55 ` Tyler Hicks
2019-07-08 20:34 ` James Bottomley
2019-07-09 16:24 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-07-09 16:31 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-08-02 21:18 ` Tyler Hicks
2019-07-11 19:48 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-07-15 16:44 ` Roberto Sassu
2019-08-01 16:32 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-08-02 8:21 ` Roberto Sassu [this message]
2019-08-02 14:27 ` Tyler Hicks
2019-08-02 19:42 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-08-02 20:23 ` Tyler Hicks
2019-08-02 20:35 ` Tyler Hicks
2019-08-03 14:44 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-08-04 1:46 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-08-05 14:50 ` Roberto Sassu
2019-08-05 15:54 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-08-05 16:04 ` Roberto Sassu
2019-08-05 16:04 ` Tyler Hicks
2019-08-05 16:51 ` Roberto Sassu
2019-08-05 16:53 ` Tyler Hicks
2019-08-05 22:11 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-08-02 19:40 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=e50c4cfa-1f0c-6f4d-1910-010a8d874393@huawei.com \
--to=roberto.sassu@huawei.com \
--cc=crazyt2019+lml@gmail.com \
--cc=jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com \
--cc=jejb@linux.ibm.com \
--cc=jgg@ziepe.ca \
--cc=keyrings@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=nayna@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
--cc=silviu.vlasceanu@huawei.com \
--cc=tyhicks@canonical.com \
--cc=zohar@linux.ibm.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).