On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 11:24:42AM +0000, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
Hi
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 3:17 PM Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
wrote:
* Daniel P. Berrange (address@hidden) wrote:
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 03:35:48PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 05/02/2017 02:50 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
Hi
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 10:25 PM Patrick Ohly <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 13:19 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 05/02/2017 01:09 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:59 PM Stefan Berger
<address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> And who is going to implement that qemu-swtpm? Obviously
this
discussion
> >> doesn't contribute to progress if nobody is doing that in
the
end.
> >>
> > The same persons who try to push for that emulated TPM code.
The easiest
> > approach would be to copy/adapt the swtpm code in qemu, if
the
licence is
> > compatible. I can help with that if there is a consensus it's
a better
> > approach.
>
>
> It's a matter of time and at least I don't have time for that.
Neither do I, and nor (I believe) does Amarnath. The approach
with
using
the existing swtpm project seemed attractive to us exactly
because it
avoids having to write and maintain more than just the glue code
between
the two projects.
The main argument is not about having more or less code in qemu to
maintain, but yes this is a concern (although giving up that
maintenance
to a seperate project with mostly Stefan-alone isn't a much better
alternative). btw, is the project actually used by something else
than
qemu? (I am not talking about developpers/testing). If not, then it
makes sense to make it part of qemu.
The intention would be to use it for RunC as well (plus higher layers
afterwards): https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/1082
But it's mostly a technical reason, to avoid having to rely on a
foreign
protocol and project with all the compatibility constrains.
I understand. Ideally swtpm-0.1 would be equivalent to 1.0 with all
features
available and no further protocol extensions necessary. In practice
that may
look different.
In the end, we may decide to start with a separate project, and
change
it in the future if it's problematic (that would break some cases,
such
as being able to freely switch the helper). Tbh, I am not so happy
with
the code quality of swtpm, and I haven't looked closely at libtpms.
Having a qemu-swtpm as part of qemu would probably help improve it
too,
and bring a few more developers for maintainance...
libtpms combines a few source codes with some glue around it. The
coding
style is different for TPM 1.2 and TPM 2 code for example and the code
bases
are in the 10s of thousands of line. In the case of TPM 2 it 'lives
from'
TCG code drops and thus there is no reformatting of source code etc.
If someone wants to get started on qemu-swtpm that's certainly cool
but over
the years it's just been quite difficult to find developers for it to
share
the burden. All that said, someone should state whether this series is
a go
or no-go because of the external project it requires.
I think it is *good* that it uses the external swtpm project and do not
want to see it reimplemented inside QEMU, particularly with the interest
for swtpm to be used in container contexts via RunC. Such common
infrastructure
for both containers & QEMU will be important given the increasing
convergance
of technology across containers & VMs.
I agree; there aren't that many people who understand the details of TPMs,
reimplementing one in QEMU isn't something you'd want to do.
It's not about reimplementing TPM emulation. swtpm is a small utility
talking to libtpms doing the heavy work. swtpm could quite easily be
copied/adapted to fit in qemu if it's only meant to be used by qemu.
However, it seems the helper is going to be used by other projects, so it
make sense to make it a seperate project. Nevertheless, I think we should
carefully review the protocol and the compatibility situation before
committing this work, it's a major burden ahead..
Yes, I agree that reviewing the protocol is a very neccessary step, to
ensure it is going to be forwards compatible in a manner suitable for
QEMU.
In particular we need to understand what, if any, relationship there
needs to be wrt machine types & live migration stability. eg if a
VM is booted and the protocol negotiates version X, and we then live
migrate to a host with a newer swtpm, we need to ensure that the
protocol doesn't negotiate something that leads to guest OS incompatiblity
problems in accessing the TPM.
basically similar scenario to that which we have had with vhost-user
and version compatibility with external vhost-user server implementations
across live migration.