Re: [PATCH] tpm: Add driver for TPM over virtio

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 2:51 PM James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 14:43 -0800, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > You still need a transport mechanism through the hypervisor to
> > communicate with the host - what would you be using in that case
> > instead of virtio?
>
> Socsim is net transported; it's sort of the TPM equivalent of NFS or
> iSCSI storage for guests.

Oh, so it relies on the guest being able to reach the host via
network? Hmm. That's a different security tradeoff. It presumably also
prevents any in-kernel use before networking is up?



[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux Kernel Hardening]     [Linux NFS]     [Linux NILFS]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux