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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/17] Removed nested TPM operations
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 02:47:33PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> [was Detach TPM space code out of the tpm_transmit() flow but the scope
>  expanded a bit.]
> 
> Make the changes necessary to detach TPM space code and TPM activation
> code out of the tpm_transmit() flow because of both of these can cause
> nested tpm_transmit() calls. The nesteds calls make the whole flow hard
> to maintain, and thus, it is better to just fix things now before this
> turns into a bigger mess.

I will take care to address the feedback from Tomas and Jason but won't
yet try to push this into v4.21. It is a patch set, which is better to
lie in linux-next before landing to a release. Probably will push the
patches soon after my v4.21 PR to linux-next. Then they will get maximum
time of exposure.

/Jarkko