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| author | Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> | 2019-07-05 22:47:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> | 2019-09-02 16:08:35 +0200 |
| commit | e8bd417aab0c72bfb54465596b16085702ba0405 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f2e3d1f19d56c9675acb2f61ad3a6ba5ce0268a /Documentation/security | |
| parent | tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee: A driver for firmware TPM running inside TEE (diff) | |
| download | linux-e8bd417aab0c72bfb54465596b16085702ba0405.tar.xz linux-e8bd417aab0c72bfb54465596b16085702ba0405.zip | |
tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee: Document fTPM TEE driver
Documentation briefly the new fTPM driver running inside TEE.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/tpm/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.rst | 27 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/security/tpm/index.rst b/Documentation/security/tpm/index.rst index 3296533e54cf..487852fda33e 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/tpm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/security/tpm/index.rst @@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ Trusted Platform Module documentation tpm_vtpm_proxy xen-tpmfront + tpm_ftpm_tee diff --git a/Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.rst b/Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8c2bae16e3d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.rst @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +============================================= +Firmware TPM Driver +============================================= + +This document describes the firmware Trusted Platform Module (fTPM) +device driver. + +Introduction +============ + +This driver is a shim for firmware implemented in ARM's TrustZone +environment. The driver allows programs to interact with the TPM in the same +way they would interact with a hardware TPM. + +Design +====== + +The driver acts as a thin layer that passes commands to and from a TPM +implemented in firmware. The driver itself doesn't contain much logic and is +used more like a dumb pipe between firmware and kernel/userspace. + +The firmware itself is based on the following paper: +https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ftpm1.pdf + +When the driver is loaded it will expose ``/dev/tpmX`` character devices to +userspace which will enable userspace to communicate with the firmware TPM +through this device. |