linux-kernel - [PATCH v19 0/6] Introduction of a remoteproc tee to load signed firmware

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Message-ID: <20250625094028.758016-1-arnaud.pouliquen@foss.st.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:40:22 +0200
From: Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@...s.st.com>
To: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier
	<mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@...aro.org>,
        "Rob Herring" <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
        "Conor Dooley" <conor+dt@...nel.org>
CC: <linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <op-tee@...ts.trustedfirmware.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@...s.st.com>
Subject: [PATCH v19 0/6] Introduction of a remoteproc tee to load signed firmware

Main updates from version V18[2]:
- rework documentation for the release_fw ops 
- rework function documentation in remoteproc_tee.c
- replace spinlock by mutex and generalize usage in remoteproc_tee.c


Main updates from version V17[1]:
- Fix:  warning: EXPORT_SYMBOL() is used, but #include <linux/export.h>
  is missing

More details are available in each patch commit message.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-remoteproc/20250613091650.2337411-1-arnaud.pouliquen@foss.st.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-remoteproc/20250616075530.4106090-1-arnaud.pouliquen@foss.st.com/

Tested-on: commit 19272b37aa4f ("Linux 6.16-rc1")

Description of the feature:
--------------------------
This series proposes the implementation of a remoteproc tee driver to
communicate with a TEE trusted application responsible for authenticating
and loading the remoteproc firmware image in an Arm secure context.

1) Principle:

The remoteproc tee driver provides services to communicate with the OP-TEE
trusted application running on the Trusted Execution Context (TEE).
The trusted application in TEE manages the remote processor lifecycle:

- authenticating and loading firmware images,
- isolating and securing the remote processor memories,
- supporting multi-firmware (e.g., TF-M + Zephyr on a Cortex-M33),
- managing the start and stop of the firmware by the TEE.

2) Format of the signed image:

Refer to:
https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/blob/master/ta/remoteproc/src/remoteproc_core.c#L18-L57

3) OP-TEE trusted application API:

Refer to:
https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/blob/master/ta/remoteproc/include/ta_remoteproc.h

4) OP-TEE signature script

Refer to:
https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/blob/master/scripts/sign_rproc_fw.py

Example of usage:
sign_rproc_fw.py --in <fw1.elf> --in <fw2.elf> --out <signed_fw.sign> --key ${OP-TEE_PATH}/keys/default.pem


5) Impact on User space Application

No sysfs impact. The user only needs to provide the signed firmware image
instead of the ELF image.


For more information about the implementation, a presentation is available here
(note that the format of the signed image has evolved between the presentation
and the integration in OP-TEE).

https://resources.linaro.org/en/resource/6c5bGvZwUAjX56fvxthxds

Arnaud Pouliquen (6):
  remoteproc: core: Introduce rproc_pa_to_va helper
  remoteproc: Add TEE support
  remoteproc: Introduce optional release_fw operation
  dt-bindings: remoteproc: Add compatibility for TEE support
  remoteproc: stm32: Create sub-functions to request shutdown and
    release
  remoteproc: stm32: Add support of an OP-TEE TA to load the firmware

 .../bindings/remoteproc/st,stm32-rproc.yaml   |  58 +-
 drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig                    |  10 +
 drivers/remoteproc/Makefile                   |   1 +
 drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c          |  52 ++
 drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_internal.h      |   6 +
 drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_tee.c           | 708 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/remoteproc/stm32_rproc.c              | 139 +++-
 include/linux/remoteproc.h                    |   6 +
 include/linux/remoteproc_tee.h                |  87 +++
 9 files changed, 1023 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_tee.c
 create mode 100644 include/linux/remoteproc_tee.h


base-commit: 19272b37aa4f83ca52bdf9c16d5d81bdd1354494
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