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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] Have IMA find and use a tpm_chip until system
 shutdown
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
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From:   Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:27:16 -0400
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On 06/29/2018 08:13 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> 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.
Thanks.

   Stefan
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