On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:52:17PM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote: > Currently to read a response from the TPM device an application needs > provide big enough buffer for the whole response and read it in one go. > The application doesn't know how big the response it beforehand so it > always needs to maintain a 4K buffer and read the max (4K). > In case if the user of the TSS library doesn't provide big enough > buffer the TCTI spec says that the library should set the required > size and return TSS2_TCTI_RC_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER error code so that the > application could allocate a bigger buffer and call receive again. > To make it possible in the TSS library, this requires being able to do > partial reads from the driver. > The library would read the 10 bytes header first to get the actual size > of the response from the header, and then read the rest of the response. > This patch adds support for partial reads, i.e. the user can read the > response in one or multiple reads, until the whole response is consumed. > The user can also read only part of the response and ignore > the rest by issuing a new write to send a new command. > > The usecase is implemented in this TSS commit: > https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tss/commit/ce982f67a67dc08e24683d30b05800648d8a264c > > Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changes in v2: > - Allow writes after only partial response is consumed to maintain > backwords compatibility. I do not understand what this bullet means. Do you deny writes somehow? /Jarkko
