From: <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kas@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>, <x86@kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-coco@lists.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] virt: tsm: Increase TSM_REPORT_OUTBLOB_MAX to 16MB
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:16:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <698be6787e2de_8c321007f@dwillia2-mobl4.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260211001712.1531955-3-sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan wrote:
> Confidential Computing (CoCo) attestation is evolving toward
> standardized models such as DICE (Device Identifier Composition Engine)
> and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), which rely on layered certificate
> chains and larger cryptographic signatures.
>
> A typical PQC certificate can range from 5KB to 15KB, and DICE-based
> architectures accumulate these certificates across multiple boot
> stages. In such configurations, the total attestation evidence can
> reach several megabytes, exceeding the current 32KB limit.
>
> Increase TSM_REPORT_OUTBLOB_MAX to 16MB to accommodate these larger
> certificate chains. This provides sufficient headroom to handle
> evolving requirements without requiring frequent updates to the limit.
>
> TSM_REPORT_OUTBLOB_MAX is used by the configfs read interface to cap
> the maximum allowed binary blob size for outblob, auxblob and
> manifestblob attributes. Hence, the per-open-file worst case memory
> allocation increases from 32KB to 16MB. Multiple concurrent readers
> multiply this cost (e.g., N readers of an M-byte blob incur NxM bytes
> of vmalloc-backed memory). However, allocations are performed on demand
> and remain proportional to the actual blob length, not the configured
> maximum.
Looks ok, again I will change the subject to:
"configfs-tsm-report: Increase TSM_REPORT_OUTBLOB_MAX to 16MB"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-11 2:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-11 0:17 [PATCH v1 0/3] Increase CoCo attestation report buffer size Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2026-02-11 0:17 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] virt: tsm: Document size limits for outblob attributes Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2026-02-11 2:15 ` dan.j.williams
2026-02-11 16:40 ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2026-02-11 20:48 ` dan.j.williams
2026-02-11 0:17 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] virt: tsm: Increase TSM_REPORT_OUTBLOB_MAX to 16MB Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2026-02-11 2:16 ` dan.j.williams [this message]
2026-02-11 0:17 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] virt: tdx-guest: Increase Quote buffer size to 128KB Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2026-02-11 2:19 ` dan.j.williams
2026-02-11 11:17 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-11 18:40 ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2026-02-11 21:06 ` dan.j.williams
2026-02-11 21:13 ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
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