[RFC PATCH v2 10/10] x86/virt/tdx: Verify structure member sizes against metadata field IDs

From: Chao Gao

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 10:21:24 EST


A metadata field ID encodes the size of a single element. TDX_SYSINFO_MAP()
instead derives the copy size from the destination member, and nothing
verifies that the two sizes agree.

A wrongly typed member is a kernel bug: declaring a u32 for an 8-byte
metadata field would silently store only its low 4 bytes.

Add macros to extract the element size encoded in a field ID and verify it
against the destination member size at build time.

BUILD_BUG_ON() cannot be used in a structure initializer, so use
BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO() and add its zero result to the .size initializer. This
performs the build-time check without changing the stored size.

AI was used under supervision to review code and workshop logs. It
suggested extracting TDX_MD_FIELD_SIZE_CHECK() instead of open coding the
check in TDX_SYSINFO_MAP(), to keep the .size line from being too long.

Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c | 12 +++++++++++-
arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c b/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c
index 9d5a3296d3c0..6dc328561009 100644
--- a/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c
@@ -424,11 +424,21 @@ static int __read_sys_metadata_table(const struct field_mapping *mappings,
return 0;
}

+/*
+ * The size encoded in the field ID and the size of the destination C
+ * member must agree.
+ */
+#define TDX_MD_FIELD_SIZE_CHECK(_field, _type, _member) \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(sizeof_field(_type, _member) != \
+ TDX_MD_FIELD_ELE_SIZE(TDX_MD_FIELD_ID_##_field))
+
#define TDX_SYSINFO_MAP(_field, _type, _member) \
{ \
.field_id = TDX_MD_FIELD_ID_##_field, \
.offset = offsetof(_type, _member), \
- .size = sizeof_field(_type, _member), \
+ .size = sizeof_field(_type, _member) + \
+ TDX_MD_FIELD_SIZE_CHECK( \
+ _field, _type, _member), \
}

#define TDX_SYSINFO_MAP_VERSION(_field_id, _member) \
diff --git a/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.h b/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.h
index 407aded3137a..17fdb682410e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.h
+++ b/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.h
@@ -99,6 +99,21 @@
/* Class "TDX Module Handoff" */
#define TDX_MD_FIELD_ID_MODULE_HV 0x8900000100000000ULL

+/*
+ * Sub-field definitions of TDX global metadata field IDs.
+ *
+ * See "Metadata Field Identifier" in the Intel TDX Module ABI
+ * Specification.
+ *
+ * - Bit 33:32: ELEMENT_SIZE_CODE -- log2 of a single metadata
+ * element's size in bytes
+ */
+#define TDX_MD_FIELD_ELE_SIZE_CODE(field_id) \
+ (((field_id) & GENMASK_ULL(33, 32)) >> 32)
+
+#define TDX_MD_FIELD_ELE_SIZE(field_id) \
+ (1 << TDX_MD_FIELD_ELE_SIZE_CODE(field_id))
+
/* TDX page types */
#define PT_NDA 0x0
#define PT_RSVD 0x1
--
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