Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] tpm: add sysfs exports for all banks of PCR registers

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:44:57PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 04:38:47PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 09:14:44AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > 
> > > > eg we can't do it because we can't access /dev/tpm for permissions or
> > > > something.
> > > 
> > > I already said that: we can't it's root.root 0600 currently.  All the
> > > TSSs seem to change at least /dev/tpmrm to tpm.tpm 0660 but we can't do
> > > that in the kernel because there's no fixed tpm uid/gid.
> > 
> > Permissions is a pretty good reason to add a sysfs file.
> > 
> > Jason
> 
> I'm not sure why suid/sgid utility to read pcrs would be worse.

suid would be more complex than this patch - most things ever made
suid seem to have security bugs :\

Jason



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