Re: [PATCH v2] tpm: tpm2-space: Resize session and context buffers dynamically

From: Stefan Berger
Date: Thu Jun 25 2020 - 17:28:01 EST


On 6/25/20 5:25 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 08:41:18AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 6/25/20 12:38 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
Re-allocate context and session buffers when needed. Scale them in page
increments so that the reallocation is only seldomly required, and thus
causes minimal stress to the system. Add a static maximum limit of four
pages for buffer sizes.

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

You don't want to try a fixes tag? None of the previous versions of this
code will work with newer versions of the TPM 2 then...
It's not a regression.

Ok, so distros will have to backport it.


ÂÂÂ Stefan