Re: [RFC v2 4/5] tpm: Increase TPM_BUFSIZE to 8kB for chunking support

From: Jarkko Sakkinen

Date: Sat May 09 2026 - 10:54:40 EST


On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 11:42:43PM +0530, Arun Menon wrote:
> The size of the command is checked against TPM_BUFSIZE early on before
> even sending it to the backend. We therefore need to increase the
> TPM_BUFSIZE to allow support for larger commands.
>
> For now, 8KB seems sufficient for ML-KEM and ML-DSA algorithms and it is
> also order-1 safe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arun Menon <armenon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> index 87d68ddf270a7..26c3765fbd732 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
> #endif
>
> #define TPM_MINOR 224 /* officially assigned */
> -#define TPM_BUFSIZE 4096
> +#define TPM_BUFSIZE 8192
> #define TPM_NUM_DEVICES 65536
> #define TPM_RETRY 50
>
> --
> 2.53.0
>

Shouldn't this prepend previous patch?

BR, Jarkko