[ARM ATTEND] Trustzone-based security solution for ARM Linux

[Ben Dooks]

On 15/08/13 04:44, Barry Song wrote:
> For the moment, there is strong markting requirement from
> IVI(In-Vehicle Infotainment) or mobile to use ARM Trustzone. We take
> IVI as an example, Auto requires security enviorment to access CAN bus
> and other car busses. Auto requires security enviorment to show
> rearview/surround view from cameras and play alert audio. on the other
> hand, IVI system is generically working as a video streaming sink and
> HDMI sink instead of a source. To support HDCP and widevine, we need
> to make sure private keys and video buffers are only visible to
> security mode. With CAN stack, video playback backend and more tasks,
> generically it requires a multi-task RTOS running in security mode
> parallel with Linux in non-security mode.

Personally, I just don't trust anything that is running on the main cpu
not to get compromised in some form. There has been too little thought
put in to securing these devices.

> Linux is a generic purpose OS with UI and all kinds of software, but
> we need to make sure even the Linux is ROOTed, RTOS in security mode
> is still active. We are able to find some opensource projects like
> SafeG[1], Multivisor[2], SierraVisor[3], but it turns out that ARM
> Linux has no rich support for this kind of architecture:
> 1. hypervisor running in monitor mode
> 2. RTOS running in security mode
> 3. Linux running in non-security mode
>
> So the point is that we need generic support for this, especially for
> IVI and other markets which want Trustzone technology a lot and have
> complex user scenarios.
> 1. Dispatch FIQ to security, dispatch IRQ to Linux, for this case, FIQ
> is not permitted to happen on Linux
> 2. IPC support for communication between RTOS in security mode and
> Linux in non-security mode, as we need to communicate rich commands
> and buffers
> 3. as some CPU time is stolen by security mode, so the scheduler need
> to get this for load balance

With information being passed to the RTOS from the non-secure OS adds
a method of attacking the secure world.

> For IPC, RPMsg is kind of popular for commucating cross HMP. For
> example, OMAP uses it as the IPC between M3 and A9; XilinX uses it as
> IPC between two A9, one with FreeRTOS, the other one with Linux; ST-E
> uses it to connect ARM with modem MCU. So we are also considering the
> possibility to involve RPMsg as the backend for communication between
> RTOS in security mode and Linux in non-security mode. then we get much
> benefit from virtio, and some drivers will be usable directly.
>
> So for this topic, I want a presentation session with about 5 slides
> to show the high-level architecture and requirement for a real and
> complex Trustzone user case. Hoping we can get some rich support from
> Linux for this architecture.
>
> On the other hand, if people can discuss Android mainlining project
> more, i like much. for the moment, most Android patches have been
> mainlined, but we still need to maintain both branches as there are
> rebased patches from Google. So i want to get input about best
> pratice.
>
> [1]SafeG (Safety Gate):
> http://www.toppers.jp/en/safeg.html
> [2]Green Hills Multivisor:
> http://www.ghs.com/products/rtos/integrity_virtualization.html
> [3]SierraVisor:
> http://www.openvirtualization.org/



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