Re: [PATCH RFC] tpm: migrate pubek_show to struct tpm_buf

From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@selhorst.net>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] tpm: migrate pubek_show to struct tpm_buf
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 15:16:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170525211613.GA14802@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170525211105.843-1-jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 02:11:04PM -0700, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>  	struct tpm_chip *chip = to_tpm_chip(dev);
> +	char anti_replay[20];
>  
> -	tpm_cmd.header.in = tpm_readpubek_header;
> -	err = tpm_transmit_cmd(chip, NULL, &tpm_cmd, READ_PUBEK_RESULT_SIZE,
> +	rc = tpm_buf_init(&tpm_buf, TPM_TAG_RQU_COMMAND, TPM_ORD_READPUBEK);
> +	if (rc)
> +		return rc;
> +
> +	/* The checksum is ignored so it doesn't matter what the contents are.
> +	 */
> +	tpm_buf_append(&tpm_buf, anti_replay, sizeof(anti_replay));

It does matter, we do not want to leak random kernel memory incase it
has something sensitive. Zero anti_replay.

> +
> -	/*
> -	   ignore header 10 bytes
> -	   algorithm 32 bits (1 == RSA )
> -	   encscheme 16 bits
> -	   sigscheme 16 bits
> -	   parameters (RSA 12->bytes: keybit, #primes, expbit)
> -	   keylenbytes 32 bits
> -	   256 byte modulus
> -	   ignore checksum 20 bytes
> -	 */

Not sure we should delete the comment, tpm buf does not make the parse
any clearer.

Jason