Re: [PATCH RESEND 3/3] tpm-chip: Export TPM device to user space even when startup failed

Jarkko Sakkinen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups net.sourceforge.lists.tpmdd-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-security-module
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 05:15:58PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> But is that just because nobody bothered to implement the necessary
> logic or for some other reason?

We do not want user space to access broken hardware. It's a huge risk
for system stability and potentially could be used for evil purposes.

This is not going to mainline as it is not suitable for general
consumption. You must use a patched kernel if you want this.

/Jarkko
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