Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] virt: tdx-guest: Allocate Quote buffer dynamically

[Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 02:26:03AM -0700, Peter Fang wrote:
> From: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
> 
> A new TDX module ABI reports the Quote size limit in a metadata field.
> Prior to this, the guest driver uses a fixed 128KB buffer. Intel derived
> this number from current Quote types, but that is not sustainable as
> Quotes evolve. 128KB may be too small for Quotes using schemes such as
> post-quantum cryptography (PQC), where larger certificate chains can
> increase the Quote size significantly. With this ABI, the guest no
> longer has to rely on some empirical number.
> 
> Allocate the Quote buffer based on the reported limit. This avoids
> wasting memory on platforms that do not need larger Quotes. Older
> platforms fall back to the default 128KB buffer.
> 
> As a result, the maximum size of the "outblob" file in configfs-tsm now
> depends on the TDX module.
> 
> Because the Quote buffer must be physically contiguous, its size is
> bound by the buddy allocator's maximum page order (4MB), which should be
> sufficient for current attestation needs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Fang <peter.fang@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tony Lindgren <tony.lindgren@linux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>

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