Re: [PATCH 3/4] firmware: Add support for Qualcomm UEFI Secure Application

Johan Hovold
2023-01-17T08:24:46Z

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:49:48AM +0200, Maximilian Luz wrote:
> On platforms using the Qualcomm UEFI Secure Application (uefisecapp),
> EFI variables cannot be accessed via the standard interface in EFI
> runtime mode. The respective functions return EFI_UNSUPPORTED. On these
> platforms, we instead need to talk to uefisecapp. This commit provides
> support for this and registers the respective efivars operations to
> access EFI variables from the kernel.
>
> Communication with uefisecapp follows the standard Qualcomm Trusted
> Environment (TEE or TrEE) / Secure OS conventions via the respective SCM
> call interface. This is also the reason why variable access works
> normally while boot services are active. During this time, said SCM
> interface is managed by the boot services. When calling
> ExitBootServices(), the ownership is transferred to the kernel.
> Therefore, UEFI must not use that interface itself (as multiple parties
> accessing this interface at the same time may lead to complications) and
> cannot access variables for us.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
> ---

> +static struct platform_driver qcom_uefisecapp_driver = {
> + .probe = qcom_uefisecapp_probe,
> + .remove = qcom_uefisecapp_remove,
> + .driver = {
> + .name = "qcom_tee_uefisecapp",
> + .of_match_table = qcom_uefisecapp_dt_match,
> + .probe_type = PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS,
> + },
> +};
> +module_platform_driver(qcom_uefisecapp_driver);

I noticed that for efivarfs to work, you're currently relying on having
the firmware still claim that the variable services are supported in the
RT_PROP table so that efi core registers the default ops at subsys init
time (which are later overridden by this driver).

Otherwise efivarfs may fail to initialise when built in:

static __init int efivarfs_init(void)
{
if (!efivars_kobject())
return -ENODEV;

return register_filesystem(&efivarfs_type);
}

module_init(efivarfs_init);

With recent X13s firmware the corresponding bit in the RT_PROP table has
been cleared so that efivarfs would fail to initialise. Similar problem
when booting with 'efi=noruntime'.

One way to handle this is to register also the qcom_uefisecapp_driver at
subsys init time and prevent it from being built as a module (e.g. as is
done for the SCM driver). I'm using the below patch for this currently.

I guess the Google GSMI implementation suffers from a similar problem.

Johan

From 8fecce12d215bd8cab1b8c8f9f0d1e1fe20fe6e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 15:32:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] firmware: qcom_tee_uefisecapp: register at subsys init

Register efivars at subsys init time so that it is available when
efivarfs probes. For the same reason, also prevent building the driver
as a module.

This is specifically needed on platforms such as the Lenovo Thinkpad
X13s where the firmware has cleared the variable services in the RT_PROP
table so that efi core does not register any efivar callbacks at subsys
init time (which are later overridden).

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>
---
drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/firmware/qcom_tee_uefisecapp.c | 7 ++++++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
index 4e9e2c227899..48e712e363da 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ config QCOM_TEE
select QCOM_SCM

config QCOM_TEE_UEFISECAPP
- tristate "Qualcomm TrEE UEFI Secure App client driver"
+ bool "Qualcomm TrEE UEFI Secure App client driver"
select QCOM_TEE
depends on EFI
help
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qcom_tee_uefisecapp.c b/drivers/firmware/qcom_tee_uefisecapp.c
index 65573e4b815a..e83bce4da70a 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/qcom_tee_uefisecapp.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/qcom_tee_uefisecapp.c
@@ -754,7 +754,12 @@ static struct platform_driver qcom_uefisecapp_driver = {
.probe_type = PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS,
},
};
-module_platform_driver(qcom_uefisecapp_driver);
+
+static int __init qcom_uefisecapp_init(void)
+{
+ return platform_driver_register(&qcom_uefisecapp_driver);
+}
+subsys_initcall(qcom_uefisecapp_init);

MODULE_AUTHOR("Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Client driver for Qualcomm TrEE/TZ UEFI Secure App");
--
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