Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Have IMA find and use a tpm_chip until system shutdown

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Fri Jun 29 2018 - 08:13:21 EST


On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 15:09 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> This series of patches converts IMA's usage of the tpm_chip to find a TPM
> chip initially and use it until the machine is shut down. To do this we need
> to introduce a kref for the tpm_chip that IMA and all other users of a
> tpm_chip hold onto until they don't need the TPM chip anymore.

All the TPM patches are now in my tree and I just updated also the
next branch so they should be soon available also in linux-next.

/Jarkko