On 03/09/2016 01:01 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Stefan Berger
<stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This patch implements a driver for supporting multiple emulated TPMs in a
system.
The driver implements a device /dev/vtpmx that is used to created
a client device pair /dev/tpmX (e.g., /dev/tpm10) and a server side that
is accessed using a file descriptor returned by an ioctl.
The device /dev/tpmX is the usual TPM device created by the core TPM
driver. Applications or kernel subsystems can send TPM commands to it
and the corresponding server-side file descriptor receives these
commands and delivers them to an emulated TPM.
Nifty!
Is anyone considering writing a modification or replacement of
trousers that creates claims the real tpm and exposes a vtpm that
handles multiplexing internally? Does the vtpm driver intelligently
support multiple simultaneous clients?
The vtpm driver allows to use an independent trousers instance in each
container.
Using the VTPM_NEW_DEV ioctl the container mgmt. stack can create a
/dev/tpmX (X=0,1,2,...) device and a file descriptor. The file
descriptor is passed to a vTPM instance, the /dev/tpmX is moved into the
container, meaning a device with the same major/minor numbers is created
in the container. This then allows each container to talk to an
independent vTPM. The vTPM can either be 1.2 or 2.
Stefan
--Andy
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