On Qualcomm SoC based platforms, UEFI stores EFI variables within the Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) located within either the UFS, eMMC or SPI-NOR storage. The RPMB key which is one-time programmed into the storage controller to allow authentication of the RPMB frames is generated by and only available to the Qualcomm Trusted Execution Environment (QTEE). Thus, only QTEE can prepare the RPMB frames which will be accepted by the storage controller.
The legacy QSEECOM protocol used for communicating with the QTEE is deprecated and replaced with the use-case agnostic SMCInvoke protocol starting with the Qualcomm SM8x50 series. On platforms where the QSEECOM protocol still works (the QSEECOM driver probes) the driver does not support a listener interface with QTEE to enable writing of non-volatile EFI variables (via listener requests to Linux from QTEE) to the RPMB for UFS and eMMC storage. (Qualcomm Compute platforms with SPI-NOR storage are an exception to this and work with QSEECOM, see the NOTE below)
Therefore on such platforms, a TEE client driver (which communicates with QTEE via the SMCInvoke protocol implemented by the QCOMTEE driver registered with the TEE subsystem) must be used to update such EFI variables through the RPMB service hosted in the QTEE supplicant user-space daemon [1] which forwards RPMB packets to the RPMB device.
This series introduces such a uefisecapp TEE client driver for the aforementioned Qualcomm platforms which installs efi-var operations _if_ the QCOMTEE driver registers support for an object-IPC based uefisecapp service on the TEE bus during its probe. Only new QTEE firmware versions available at [2] provide access to the uefisecapp service via the SMCInvoke protocol.
Thus, QCOMTEE now maintains a static list of always-available object-IPC based secure services exposed by QTEE. These services are implemented either within the QTEE kernel or within a pre-loaded Trusted Application (TA) usually loaded by the bootloader. The uefisecapp TA is an example of a preloaded TA loaded by UEFI. A static list is required since QTEE does not yet expose any way to dynamically query and enumerate the services exposed by it.
To facilitate object-IPC interactions from the kernel-space, this series also introduces a tee_client_object_invoke_func() to allow invocation of TEE objects similar to the existing tee_client_invoke_func() API exported by the TEE subsystem which allows invocation of TEE functions. Some suporting changes are also introduced to track and handle operations for TEE contexts opened from the kernel-space in the back-end QCOM-TEE driver.
Finally and as previously mentioned, access to the object-IPC based uefisecapp service is restricted on older QTEE firmware versions. A new QTEE firmware release must be picked up from QArtifactory [2] for all upstream supported Qualcomm SoCs to enable access to uefisecapp service via the TEE client driver.
This patch series has been validated on Kodiak RB3Gen2 platform with UFS storage by attempting to read/write EFI variables via the efivar tool [3] after mounting the efivarfs filesystem. See [4] for an example.
NOTE: Since Compute platforms do not have a firmware running on their SPI-NOR storage controller which must be programmed with a RPMB key, QTEE has a SPI-NOR driver which holds the key, and so the QSEECOM driver can be used for updating EFI variables on these platforms because QTEE never makes a listener request to Linux (QTEE doesn't need the Linux SPI-NOR driver). Such platforms are outlined in the following static list [5].
Merge Strategy:
This patch series could either be taken from the OP-TEE tree or the QCOM soc tree. I would prefer it to be picked by the OP-TEE tree since all except the uefisecapp TEE client driver patch in this series make changes relevant to the TEE subsystem. It would be great if the QCOM soc tree maintainers can Ack the uefisecapp driver patch.
[1] https://github.com/qualcomm/minkipc [2] https://shorturl.at/zQU07 [3] https://github.com/rhboot/efivar [4] https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-70020-27/topic/manage_uefi_environment_vari... [5] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.3-rc5/source/drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_...
Signed-off-by: Harshal Dev harshal.dev@oss.qualcomm.com --- Changes in v4: - Fixed kernel test robot warnings with gcc v16.1.0 [-Wvla-larger-than]. - Update parameter docs for qcomtee_object_invoke() and param_to/from_args(). - Split the defconfig change enabling the UefiSecApp TEE driver into a separate commit. - Use pr_debug() instead of pr_err() when QTEE says it does not implement a service being enumerated. - Re-name qtee_enumerate_service*() functions to qtee_register_service*(). - Collected Reviewed/Acked-by tags from Sumit. - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261001-qcom_uefisecapp_migrate_qcomtee-v3-0-13df...
Changes in v3: - Updated the cover letter and commit messages to highlight the following: 1. Only QTEE has the ability to prepare RPMB frames since it generates and holds the RPMB key. 2. The QSEECOM protocol is deprecated on new platforms and so this series migrates the uefisecapp to SMCInvoke which is a use-case agnostic, transport focused and easier to maintain protocol. - Use single if statement to update both flags and addr/uaddr. - Remove redundant use of new error variable in qcomtee_get_qtee_feature_list(). - Minor fixes such as concise error prints and use of better error codes. - Fix a double free in qtee_enumerate_service(). - Re-org the qcomtee_enumerate_services() function to re-use the same oic and client_env object. - Remove depends on !QCOM_QSEECOM_UEFISECAPP from Kconfig since both drivers can co-exist even on platforms that support both QSEECOM and SMCInvoke protocols. - Update the Kconfig description to better help the user understand when to enable the TEE based uefisecapp driver. - Removed qcom_tee_uefisecapp.h file and inline the header in qcom_tee_uefisecapp.c - Rebased patch series onto the latest linux next tag: next-20260930. - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260722-qcom_uefisecapp_migrate_qcomtee-v2-0-b8a8...
Changes in v2: - Drop using MSB of the object_id to distingush kernel and user object invoke contexts. - Introduce enum tee_object_invoke_origin to check the context of object invocation. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260707-qcom_uefisecapp_migrate_qcomtee-v1-0-f659...
--- Amirreza Zarrabi (2): tee: Add kernel client object invoke helper tee: qcomtee: Allow object invokes from kernel clients
Harshal Dev (5): tee: qcomtee: Track the object invocation context tee: Export uuidv5 generation for TEE backends tee: qcomtee: Add support for registering QTEE services on TEE bus firmware: qcom: Add support for TEE based EFI-var client driver arm64: defconfig: Enable UefiSecApp TEE client driver for Qualcomm SoCs
MAINTAINERS | 6 + arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 1 + drivers/firmware/qcom/Kconfig | 31 ++ drivers/firmware/qcom/Makefile | 1 + drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_tee_uefisecapp.c | 648 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/tee/qcomtee/call.c | 211 ++++++++- drivers/tee/qcomtee/core.c | 9 +- drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee.h | 12 + drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee_msg.h | 1 + drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee_object.h | 16 +- drivers/tee/tee_core.c | 24 +- include/linux/tee_core.h | 23 +- include/linux/tee_drv.h | 18 +- 13 files changed, 967 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 6c2cb8b8b843d216ab549b678a0d8831c43153e0 change-id: 20260408-qcom_uefisecapp_migrate_qcomtee-13869d45e014
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