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      1=============
      2TEE subsystem
      3=============
      4
      5This document describes the TEE subsystem in Linux.
      6
      7A TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) is a trusted OS running in some
      8secure environment, for example, TrustZone on ARM CPUs, or a separate
      9secure co-processor etc. A TEE driver handles the details needed to
     10communicate with the TEE.
     11
     12This subsystem deals with:
     13
     14- Registration of TEE drivers
     15
     16- Managing shared memory between Linux and the TEE
     17
     18- Providing a generic API to the TEE
     19
     20The TEE interface
     21=================
     22
     23include/uapi/linux/tee.h defines the generic interface to a TEE.
     24
     25User space (the client) connects to the driver by opening /dev/tee[0-9]* or
     26/dev/teepriv[0-9]*.
     27
     28- TEE_IOC_SHM_ALLOC allocates shared memory and returns a file descriptor
     29  which user space can mmap. When user space doesn't need the file
     30  descriptor any more, it should be closed. When shared memory isn't needed
     31  any longer it should be unmapped with munmap() to allow the reuse of
     32  memory.
     33
     34- TEE_IOC_VERSION lets user space know which TEE this driver handles and
     35  its capabilities.
     36
     37- TEE_IOC_OPEN_SESSION opens a new session to a Trusted Application.
     38
     39- TEE_IOC_INVOKE invokes a function in a Trusted Application.
     40
     41- TEE_IOC_CANCEL may cancel an ongoing TEE_IOC_OPEN_SESSION or TEE_IOC_INVOKE.
     42
     43- TEE_IOC_CLOSE_SESSION closes a session to a Trusted Application.
     44
     45There are two classes of clients, normal clients and supplicants. The latter is
     46a helper process for the TEE to access resources in Linux, for example file
     47system access. A normal client opens /dev/tee[0-9]* and a supplicant opens
     48/dev/teepriv[0-9].
     49
     50Much of the communication between clients and the TEE is opaque to the
     51driver. The main job for the driver is to receive requests from the
     52clients, forward them to the TEE and send back the results. In the case of
     53supplicants the communication goes in the other direction, the TEE sends
     54requests to the supplicant which then sends back the result.
     55
     56The TEE kernel interface
     57========================
     58
     59Kernel provides a TEE bus infrastructure where a Trusted Application is
     60represented as a device identified via Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) and
     61client drivers register a table of supported device UUIDs.
     62
     63TEE bus infrastructure registers following APIs:
     64
     65match():
     66  iterates over the client driver UUID table to find a corresponding
     67  match for device UUID. If a match is found, then this particular device is
     68  probed via corresponding probe API registered by the client driver. This
     69  process happens whenever a device or a client driver is registered with TEE
     70  bus.
     71
     72uevent():
     73  notifies user-space (udev) whenever a new device is registered on
     74  TEE bus for auto-loading of modularized client drivers.
     75
     76TEE bus device enumeration is specific to underlying TEE implementation, so it
     77is left open for TEE drivers to provide corresponding implementation.
     78
     79Then TEE client driver can talk to a matched Trusted Application using APIs
     80listed in include/linux/tee_drv.h.
     81
     82TEE client driver example
     83-------------------------
     84
     85Suppose a TEE client driver needs to communicate with a Trusted Application
     86having UUID: ``ac6a4085-0e82-4c33-bf98-8eb8e118b6c2``, so driver registration
     87snippet would look like::
     88
     89	static const struct tee_client_device_id client_id_table[] = {
     90		{UUID_INIT(0xac6a4085, 0x0e82, 0x4c33,
     91			   0xbf, 0x98, 0x8e, 0xb8, 0xe1, 0x18, 0xb6, 0xc2)},
     92		{}
     93	};
     94
     95	MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(tee, client_id_table);
     96
     97	static struct tee_client_driver client_driver = {
     98		.id_table	= client_id_table,
     99		.driver		= {
    100			.name		= DRIVER_NAME,
    101			.bus		= &tee_bus_type,
    102			.probe		= client_probe,
    103			.remove		= client_remove,
    104		},
    105	};
    106
    107	static int __init client_init(void)
    108	{
    109		return driver_register(&client_driver.driver);
    110	}
    111
    112	static void __exit client_exit(void)
    113	{
    114		driver_unregister(&client_driver.driver);
    115	}
    116
    117	module_init(client_init);
    118	module_exit(client_exit);
    119
    120OP-TEE driver
    121=============
    122
    123The OP-TEE driver handles OP-TEE [1] based TEEs. Currently it is only the ARM
    124TrustZone based OP-TEE solution that is supported.
    125
    126Lowest level of communication with OP-TEE builds on ARM SMC Calling
    127Convention (SMCCC) [2], which is the foundation for OP-TEE's SMC interface
    128[3] used internally by the driver. Stacked on top of that is OP-TEE Message
    129Protocol [4].
    130
    131OP-TEE SMC interface provides the basic functions required by SMCCC and some
    132additional functions specific for OP-TEE. The most interesting functions are:
    133
    134- OPTEE_SMC_FUNCID_CALLS_UID (part of SMCCC) returns the version information
    135  which is then returned by TEE_IOC_VERSION
    136
    137- OPTEE_SMC_CALL_GET_OS_UUID returns the particular OP-TEE implementation, used
    138  to tell, for instance, a TrustZone OP-TEE apart from an OP-TEE running on a
    139  separate secure co-processor.
    140
    141- OPTEE_SMC_CALL_WITH_ARG drives the OP-TEE message protocol
    142
    143- OPTEE_SMC_GET_SHM_CONFIG lets the driver and OP-TEE agree on which memory
    144  range to used for shared memory between Linux and OP-TEE.
    145
    146The GlobalPlatform TEE Client API [5] is implemented on top of the generic
    147TEE API.
    148
    149Picture of the relationship between the different components in the
    150OP-TEE architecture::
    151
    152      User space                  Kernel                   Secure world
    153      ~~~~~~~~~~                  ~~~~~~                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~
    154   +--------+                                             +-------------+
    155   | Client |                                             | Trusted     |
    156   +--------+                                             | Application |
    157      /\                                                  +-------------+
    158      || +----------+                                           /\
    159      || |tee-      |                                           ||
    160      || |supplicant|                                           \/
    161      || +----------+                                     +-------------+
    162      \/      /\                                          | TEE Internal|
    163   +-------+  ||                                          | API         |
    164   + TEE   |  ||            +--------+--------+           +-------------+
    165   | Client|  ||            | TEE    | OP-TEE |           | OP-TEE      |
    166   | API   |  \/            | subsys | driver |           | Trusted OS  |
    167   +-------+----------------+----+-------+----+-----------+-------------+
    168   |      Generic TEE API        |       |     OP-TEE MSG               |
    169   |      IOCTL (TEE_IOC_*)      |       |     SMCCC (OPTEE_SMC_CALL_*) |
    170   +-----------------------------+       +------------------------------+
    171
    172RPC (Remote Procedure Call) are requests from secure world to kernel driver
    173or tee-supplicant. An RPC is identified by a special range of SMCCC return
    174values from OPTEE_SMC_CALL_WITH_ARG. RPC messages which are intended for the
    175kernel are handled by the kernel driver. Other RPC messages will be forwarded to
    176tee-supplicant without further involvement of the driver, except switching
    177shared memory buffer representation.
    178
    179OP-TEE device enumeration
    180-------------------------
    181
    182OP-TEE provides a pseudo Trusted Application: drivers/tee/optee/device.c in
    183order to support device enumeration. In other words, OP-TEE driver invokes this
    184application to retrieve a list of Trusted Applications which can be registered
    185as devices on the TEE bus.
    186
    187OP-TEE notifications
    188--------------------
    189
    190There are two kinds of notifications that secure world can use to make
    191normal world aware of some event.
    192
    1931. Synchronous notifications delivered with ``OPTEE_RPC_CMD_NOTIFICATION``
    194   using the ``OPTEE_RPC_NOTIFICATION_SEND`` parameter.
    1952. Asynchronous notifications delivered with a combination of a non-secure
    196   edge-triggered interrupt and a fast call from the non-secure interrupt
    197   handler.
    198
    199Synchronous notifications are limited by depending on RPC for delivery,
    200this is only usable when secure world is entered with a yielding call via
    201``OPTEE_SMC_CALL_WITH_ARG``. This excludes such notifications from secure
    202world interrupt handlers.
    203
    204An asynchronous notification is delivered via a non-secure edge-triggered
    205interrupt to an interrupt handler registered in the OP-TEE driver. The
    206actual notification value are retrieved with the fast call
    207``OPTEE_SMC_GET_ASYNC_NOTIF_VALUE``. Note that one interrupt can represent
    208multiple notifications.
    209
    210One notification value ``OPTEE_SMC_ASYNC_NOTIF_VALUE_DO_BOTTOM_HALF`` has a
    211special meaning. When this value is received it means that normal world is
    212supposed to make a yielding call ``OPTEE_MSG_CMD_DO_BOTTOM_HALF``. This
    213call is done from the thread assisting the interrupt handler. This is a
    214building block for OP-TEE OS in secure world to implement the top half and
    215bottom half style of device drivers.
    216
    217AMD-TEE driver
    218==============
    219
    220The AMD-TEE driver handles the communication with AMD's TEE environment. The
    221TEE environment is provided by AMD Secure Processor.
    222
    223The AMD Secure Processor (formerly called Platform Security Processor or PSP)
    224is a dedicated processor that features ARM TrustZone technology, along with a
    225software-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) designed to enable
    226third-party Trusted Applications. This feature is currently enabled only for
    227APUs.
    228
    229The following picture shows a high level overview of AMD-TEE::
    230
    231                                             |
    232    x86                                      |
    233                                             |
    234 User space            (Kernel space)        |    AMD Secure Processor (PSP)
    235 ~~~~~~~~~~            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~        |    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    236                                             |
    237 +--------+                                  |       +-------------+
    238 | Client |                                  |       | Trusted     |
    239 +--------+                                  |       | Application |
    240     /\                                      |       +-------------+
    241     ||                                      |             /\
    242     ||                                      |             ||
    243     ||                                      |             \/
    244     ||                                      |         +----------+
    245     ||                                      |         |   TEE    |
    246     ||                                      |         | Internal |
    247     \/                                      |         |   API    |
    248 +---------+           +-----------+---------+         +----------+
    249 | TEE     |           | TEE       | AMD-TEE |         | AMD-TEE  |
    250 | Client  |           | subsystem | driver  |         | Trusted  |
    251 | API     |           |           |         |         |   OS     |
    252 +---------+-----------+----+------+---------+---------+----------+
    253 |   Generic TEE API        |      | ASP     |      Mailbox       |
    254 |   IOCTL (TEE_IOC_*)      |      | driver  | Register Protocol  |
    255 +--------------------------+      +---------+--------------------+
    256
    257At the lowest level (in x86), the AMD Secure Processor (ASP) driver uses the
    258CPU to PSP mailbox register to submit commands to the PSP. The format of the
    259command buffer is opaque to the ASP driver. It's role is to submit commands to
    260the secure processor and return results to AMD-TEE driver. The interface
    261between AMD-TEE driver and AMD Secure Processor driver can be found in [6].
    262
    263The AMD-TEE driver packages the command buffer payload for processing in TEE.
    264The command buffer format for the different TEE commands can be found in [7].
    265
    266The TEE commands supported by AMD-TEE Trusted OS are:
    267
    268* TEE_CMD_ID_LOAD_TA          - loads a Trusted Application (TA) binary into
    269                                TEE environment.
    270* TEE_CMD_ID_UNLOAD_TA        - unloads TA binary from TEE environment.
    271* TEE_CMD_ID_OPEN_SESSION     - opens a session with a loaded TA.
    272* TEE_CMD_ID_CLOSE_SESSION    - closes session with loaded TA
    273* TEE_CMD_ID_INVOKE_CMD       - invokes a command with loaded TA
    274* TEE_CMD_ID_MAP_SHARED_MEM   - maps shared memory
    275* TEE_CMD_ID_UNMAP_SHARED_MEM - unmaps shared memory
    276
    277AMD-TEE Trusted OS is the firmware running on AMD Secure Processor.
    278
    279The AMD-TEE driver registers itself with TEE subsystem and implements the
    280following driver function callbacks:
    281
    282* get_version - returns the driver implementation id and capability.
    283* open - sets up the driver context data structure.
    284* release - frees up driver resources.
    285* open_session - loads the TA binary and opens session with loaded TA.
    286* close_session -  closes session with loaded TA and unloads it.
    287* invoke_func - invokes a command with loaded TA.
    288
    289cancel_req driver callback is not supported by AMD-TEE.
    290
    291The GlobalPlatform TEE Client API [5] can be used by the user space (client) to
    292talk to AMD's TEE. AMD's TEE provides a secure environment for loading, opening
    293a session, invoking commands and closing session with TA.
    294
    295References
    296==========
    297
    298[1] https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os
    299
    300[2] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0028a/index.html
    301
    302[3] drivers/tee/optee/optee_smc.h
    303
    304[4] drivers/tee/optee/optee_msg.h
    305
    306[5] http://www.globalplatform.org/specificationsdevice.asp look for
    307    "TEE Client API Specification v1.0" and click download.
    308
    309[6] include/linux/psp-tee.h
    310
    311[7] drivers/tee/amdtee/amdtee_if.h