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+=============
+TEE subsystem
+=============
+
+This document describes the TEE subsystem in Linux.
+
+A TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) is a trusted OS running in some
+secure environment, for example, TrustZone on ARM CPUs, or a separate
+secure co-processor etc. A TEE driver handles the details needed to
+communicate with the TEE.
+
+This subsystem deals with:
+
+- Registration of TEE drivers
+
+- Managing shared memory between Linux and the TEE
+
+- Providing a generic API to the TEE
+
+The TEE interface
+=================
+
+include/uapi/linux/tee.h defines the generic interface to a TEE.
+
+User space (the client) connects to the driver by opening /dev/tee[0-9]* or
+/dev/teepriv[0-9]*.
+
+- TEE_IOC_SHM_ALLOC allocates shared memory and returns a file descriptor
+ which user space can mmap. When user space doesn't need the file
+ descriptor any more, it should be closed. When shared memory isn't needed
+ any longer it should be unmapped with munmap() to allow the reuse of
+ memory.
+
+- TEE_IOC_VERSION lets user space know which TEE this driver handles and
+ its capabilities.
+
+- TEE_IOC_OPEN_SESSION opens a new session to a Trusted Application.
+
+- TEE_IOC_INVOKE invokes a function in a Trusted Application.
+
+- TEE_IOC_CANCEL may cancel an ongoing TEE_IOC_OPEN_SESSION or TEE_IOC_INVOKE.
+
+- TEE_IOC_CLOSE_SESSION closes a session to a Trusted Application.
+
+There are two classes of clients, normal clients and supplicants. The latter is
+a helper process for the TEE to access resources in Linux, for example file
+system access. A normal client opens /dev/tee[0-9]* and a supplicant opens
+/dev/teepriv[0-9].
+
+Much of the communication between clients and the TEE is opaque to the
+driver. The main job for the driver is to receive requests from the
+clients, forward them to the TEE and send back the results. In the case of
+supplicants the communication goes in the other direction, the TEE sends
+requests to the supplicant which then sends back the result.
+
+The TEE kernel interface
+========================
+
+Kernel provides a TEE bus infrastructure where a Trusted Application is
+represented as a device identified via Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) and
+client drivers register a table of supported device UUIDs.
+
+TEE bus infrastructure registers following APIs:
+- match(): iterates over the client driver UUID table to find a corresponding
+ match for device UUID. If a match is found, then this particular device is
+ probed via corresponding probe API registered by the client driver. This
+ process happens whenever a device or a client driver is registered with TEE
+ bus.
+- uevent(): notifies user-space (udev) whenever a new device is registered on
+ TEE bus for auto-loading of modularized client drivers.
+
+TEE bus device enumeration is specific to underlying TEE implementation, so it
+is left open for TEE drivers to provide corresponding implementation.
+
+Then TEE client driver can talk to a matched Trusted Application using APIs
+listed in include/linux/tee_drv.h.
+
+TEE client driver example
+-------------------------
+
+Suppose a TEE client driver needs to communicate with a Trusted Application
+having UUID: ``ac6a4085-0e82-4c33-bf98-8eb8e118b6c2``, so driver registration
+snippet would look like::
+
+ static const struct tee_client_device_id client_id_table[] = {
+ {UUID_INIT(0xac6a4085, 0x0e82, 0x4c33,
+ 0xbf, 0x98, 0x8e, 0xb8, 0xe1, 0x18, 0xb6, 0xc2)},
+ {}
+ };
+
+ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(tee, client_id_table);
+
+ static struct tee_client_driver client_driver = {
+ .id_table = client_id_table,
+ .driver = {
+ .name = DRIVER_NAME,
+ .bus = &tee_bus_type,
+ .probe = client_probe,
+ .remove = client_remove,
+ },
+ };
+
+ static int __init client_init(void)
+ {
+ return driver_register(&client_driver.driver);
+ }
+
+ static void __exit client_exit(void)
+ {
+ driver_unregister(&client_driver.driver);
+ }
+
+ module_init(client_init);
+ module_exit(client_exit);
+
+OP-TEE driver
+=============
+
+The OP-TEE driver handles OP-TEE [1] based TEEs. Currently it is only the ARM
+TrustZone based OP-TEE solution that is supported.
+
+Lowest level of communication with OP-TEE builds on ARM SMC Calling
+Convention (SMCCC) [2], which is the foundation for OP-TEE's SMC interface
+[3] used internally by the driver. Stacked on top of that is OP-TEE Message
+Protocol [4].
+
+OP-TEE SMC interface provides the basic functions required by SMCCC and some
+additional functions specific for OP-TEE. The most interesting functions are:
+
+- OPTEE_SMC_FUNCID_CALLS_UID (part of SMCCC) returns the version information
+ which is then returned by TEE_IOC_VERSION
+
+- OPTEE_SMC_CALL_GET_OS_UUID returns the particular OP-TEE implementation, used
+ to tell, for instance, a TrustZone OP-TEE apart from an OP-TEE running on a
+ separate secure co-processor.
+
+- OPTEE_SMC_CALL_WITH_ARG drives the OP-TEE message protocol
+
+- OPTEE_SMC_GET_SHM_CONFIG lets the driver and OP-TEE agree on which memory
+ range to used for shared memory between Linux and OP-TEE.
+
+The GlobalPlatform TEE Client API [5] is implemented on top of the generic
+TEE API.
+
+Picture of the relationship between the different components in the
+OP-TEE architecture::
+
+ User space Kernel Secure world
+ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ +--------+ +-------------+
+ | Client | | Trusted |
+ +--------+ | Application |
+ /\ +-------------+
+ || +----------+ /\
+ || |tee- | ||
+ || |supplicant| \/
+ || +----------+ +-------------+
+ \/ /\ | TEE Internal|
+ +-------+ || | API |
+ + TEE | || +--------+--------+ +-------------+
+ | Client| || | TEE | OP-TEE | | OP-TEE |
+ | API | \/ | subsys | driver | | Trusted OS |
+ +-------+----------------+----+-------+----+-----------+-------------+
+ | Generic TEE API | | OP-TEE MSG |
+ | IOCTL (TEE_IOC_*) | | SMCCC (OPTEE_SMC_CALL_*) |
+ +-----------------------------+ +------------------------------+
+
+RPC (Remote Procedure Call) are requests from secure world to kernel driver
+or tee-supplicant. An RPC is identified by a special range of SMCCC return
+values from OPTEE_SMC_CALL_WITH_ARG. RPC messages which are intended for the
+kernel are handled by the kernel driver. Other RPC messages will be forwarded to
+tee-supplicant without further involvement of the driver, except switching
+shared memory buffer representation.
+
+OP-TEE device enumeration
+-------------------------
+
+OP-TEE provides a pseudo Trusted Application: drivers/tee/optee/device.c in
+order to support device enumeration. In other words, OP-TEE driver invokes this
+application to retrieve a list of Trusted Applications which can be registered
+as devices on the TEE bus.
+
+AMD-TEE driver
+==============
+
+The AMD-TEE driver handles the communication with AMD's TEE environment. The
+TEE environment is provided by AMD Secure Processor.
+
+The AMD Secure Processor (formerly called Platform Security Processor or PSP)
+is a dedicated processor that features ARM TrustZone technology, along with a
+software-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) designed to enable
+third-party Trusted Applications. This feature is currently enabled only for
+APUs.
+
+The following picture shows a high level overview of AMD-TEE::
+
+ |
+ x86 |
+ |
+ User space (Kernel space) | AMD Secure Processor (PSP)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ |
+ +--------+ | +-------------+
+ | Client | | | Trusted |
+ +--------+ | | Application |
+ /\ | +-------------+
+ || | /\
+ || | ||
+ || | \/
+ || | +----------+
+ || | | TEE |
+ || | | Internal |
+ \/ | | API |
+ +---------+ +-----------+---------+ +----------+
+ | TEE | | TEE | AMD-TEE | | AMD-TEE |
+ | Client | | subsystem | driver | | Trusted |
+ | API | | | | | OS |
+ +---------+-----------+----+------+---------+---------+----------+
+ | Generic TEE API | | ASP | Mailbox |
+ | IOCTL (TEE_IOC_*) | | driver | Register Protocol |
+ +--------------------------+ +---------+--------------------+
+
+At the lowest level (in x86), the AMD Secure Processor (ASP) driver uses the
+CPU to PSP mailbox regsister to submit commands to the PSP. The format of the
+command buffer is opaque to the ASP driver. It's role is to submit commands to
+the secure processor and return results to AMD-TEE driver. The interface
+between AMD-TEE driver and AMD Secure Processor driver can be found in [6].
+
+The AMD-TEE driver packages the command buffer payload for processing in TEE.
+The command buffer format for the different TEE commands can be found in [7].
+
+The TEE commands supported by AMD-TEE Trusted OS are:
+
+* TEE_CMD_ID_LOAD_TA - loads a Trusted Application (TA) binary into
+ TEE environment.
+* TEE_CMD_ID_UNLOAD_TA - unloads TA binary from TEE environment.
+* TEE_CMD_ID_OPEN_SESSION - opens a session with a loaded TA.
+* TEE_CMD_ID_CLOSE_SESSION - closes session with loaded TA
+* TEE_CMD_ID_INVOKE_CMD - invokes a command with loaded TA
+* TEE_CMD_ID_MAP_SHARED_MEM - maps shared memory
+* TEE_CMD_ID_UNMAP_SHARED_MEM - unmaps shared memory
+
+AMD-TEE Trusted OS is the firmware running on AMD Secure Processor.
+
+The AMD-TEE driver registers itself with TEE subsystem and implements the
+following driver function callbacks:
+
+* get_version - returns the driver implementation id and capability.
+* open - sets up the driver context data structure.
+* release - frees up driver resources.
+* open_session - loads the TA binary and opens session with loaded TA.
+* close_session - closes session with loaded TA and unloads it.
+* invoke_func - invokes a command with loaded TA.
+
+cancel_req driver callback is not supported by AMD-TEE.
+
+The GlobalPlatform TEE Client API [5] can be used by the user space (client) to
+talk to AMD's TEE. AMD's TEE provides a secure environment for loading, opening
+a session, invoking commands and clossing session with TA.
+
+References
+==========
+
+[1] https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os
+
+[2] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0028a/index.html
+
+[3] drivers/tee/optee/optee_smc.h
+
+[4] drivers/tee/optee/optee_msg.h
+
+[5] http://www.globalplatform.org/specificationsdevice.asp look for
+ "TEE Client API Specification v1.0" and click download.
+
+[6] include/linux/psp-tee.h
+
+[7] drivers/tee/amdtee/amdtee_if.h