Add documentation providing details of how the CRB driver interacts with FF-A. Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ffa_crb.rst | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ffa_crb.rst diff --git a/Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ffa_crb.rst b/Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ffa_crb.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c70f8904a93d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ffa_crb.rst @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======================== +TPM CRB over FF-A Driver +======================== + +The TPM Command Response Buffer (CRB) interface is a standard TPM interface +defined in the TCG PC Client Platform TPM Profile (PTP) Specification [1]_. +The CRB provides a structured set of control registers a client uses when +interacting with a TPM as well as a data buffer for storing TPM commands and +responses. A CRB interface can be implemented in: + +- hardware registers in a discrete TPM chip + +- in memory for a TPM running in isolated environment where shared memory + allows a client to interact with the TPM + +The Firmware Framework for Arm A-profile (FF-A) [2]_ is a specification +that defines interfaces and protocols for the following purposes: + +- Compartmentalize firmware into software partitions that run in the Arm + Secure world environment (also know as TrustZone) + +- Provide a standard interface for software components in the Non-secure + state, for example OS and Hypervisors, to communicate with this firmware. + +A TPM can be implemented as an FF-A secure service. This could be a firmware +TPM or could potentially be a TPM service that acts as a proxy to a discrete +TPM chip. An FF-A based TPM abstracts hardware details (e.g. bus controller +and chip selects) away from the OS and can protect locality 4 from access +by an OS. The TCG-defined CRB interface is used by clients to interact +with the TPM service. + +The Arm TPM Service Command Response Buffer Interface Over FF-A [3]_ +specification defines FF-A messages that can be used by a client to signal +when updates have been made to the CRB. + +How the Linux CRB driver interacts with FF-A is summarized below: + +- The tpm_ffa_crb driver registers with the FF-A subsystem in the kernel + with an architected TPM service UUID defined in the CRB over FF-A spec. + +- If a TPM service is discovered by FF-A, the probe() function in the + tpm_ffa_crb driver runs, and the driver initializes. + +- The probing and initialization of the Linux CRB driver is triggered + by the discovery of a TPM advertised via ACPI. The CRB driver can + detect the type of TPM through the ACPI 'start' method. The start + method for Arm FF-A was defined in TCG ACPI v1.4 [4]_. + +- When the CRB driver performs its normal functions such as signaling 'start' + and locality request/relinquish it invokes the ffa_crb_start() funnction + in the tpm_ffa_crb driver which handles the FF-A messaging to the TPM. + +References +========== + +.. [1] **TCG PC Client Platform TPM Profile (PTP) Specification** + https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-platform-tpm-profile-ptp-specification/ +.. [2] **Arm Firmware Framework for Arm A-profile (FF-A)** + https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0077/latest/ +.. [3] **Arm TPM Service Command Response Buffer Interface Over FF-A** + https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0138/latest/ +.. [4] **TCG ACPI Specification** + https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/tcg-acpi-specification/ -- 2.34.1
