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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Have IMA find and use a tpm_chip until system
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From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To:     Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:20:48 +0300
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On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 11:19 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 06:43 -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.
> > 
> >     Stefan
> > 
> > v3->v4:
> >   - followed Jason's suggestions
> 
> "Jason's suggestions" means nothing.

Please fix the change log for the next version.

/Jarkko