On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 at 15:19, Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 8/17/23 01:31, Shyam Saini wrote: > > > > Hi Ulf, > > > >> On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 at 03:41, Shyam Saini > >> <shyamsaini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> From: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>> > >>> [This is patch 1 from [1] Alex's submission and this RPMB layer was > >>> originally proposed by [2]Thomas Winkler ] > >>> > >>> A number of storage technologies support a specialised hardware > >>> partition designed to be resistant to replay attacks. The underlying > >>> HW protocols differ but the operations are common. The RPMB partition > >>> cannot be accessed via standard block layer, but by a set of specific > >>> commands: WRITE, READ, GET_WRITE_COUNTER, and PROGRAM_KEY. Such a > >>> partition provides authenticated and replay protected access, hence > >>> suitable as a secure storage. > >>> > >>> The initial aim of this patch is to provide a simple RPMB Driver which > >>> can be accessed by Linux's optee driver to facilitate fast-path for > >>> RPMB access to optee OS(secure OS) during the boot time. [1] Currently, > >>> Optee OS relies on user-tee supplicant to access eMMC RPMB partition. > >>> > >>> A TEE device driver can claim the RPMB interface, for example, via > >>> class_interface_register(). The RPMB driver provides a series of > >>> operations for interacting with the device. > >> > >> I don't quite follow this. More exactly, how will the TEE driver know > >> what RPMB device it should use? > > > > I don't have complete code to for this yet, but i think OP-TEE driver > > should register with RPMB subsystem and then we can have eMMC/UFS/NVMe > > specific implementation for RPMB operations. > > > > Linux optee driver can handle RPMB frames and pass it to RPMB subsystem > > It would be better to have this OP-TEE use case fully implemented. So that we can justify it as a valid user for this proposed RPMB subsystem. If you are looking for any further suggestions then please let us know. > > [1] U-Boot has mmc specific implementation > > > > I think OPTEE-OS has CFG_RPMB_FS_DEV_ID option > > CFG_RPMB_FS_DEV_ID=1 for /dev/mmcblk1rpmb, > > Correct. Note that tee-supplicant will ignore this device ID if --rmb-cid > is given and use the specified RPMB instead (the CID is a non-ambiguous way > to identify a RPMB device). > > > but in case if a > > system has multiple RPMB devices such as UFS/eMMC/NVMe, one them > > should be declared as secure storage and optee should access that one only. > > Indeed, that would be an equivalent of tee-supplicant's --rpmb-cid. > > > Sumit, do you have suggestions for this ? > I would suggest having an OP-TEE secure DT property that would provide the RPMB CID which is allocated to the secure world. -Sumit > > -- > Jerome
