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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 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>,
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Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:13:09 +0300
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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