Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] tpm: Reserve the TPM final events table

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On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 01:55:16PM -0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> UEFI systems provide a boot services protocol for obtaining the TPM
> event log, but this is unusable after ExitBootServices() is called.
> Unfortunately ExitBootServices() itself triggers additional TPM events
> that then can't be obtained using this protocol. The platform provides a
> mechanism for the OS to obtain these events by recording them to a
> separate UEFI configuration table which the OS can then map.
> 
> Unfortunately this table isn't self describing in terms of providing its
> length, so we need to parse the events inside it to figure out how long
> it is. Since the table isn't mapped at this point, we need to extend the
> length calculation function to be able to map the event as it goes
> along.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

/Jarkko



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