[PATCH v4 0/3] tee: add MbedTEE driver
Xing Loong
xing.xl.loong at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 01:35:56 PDT 2026
This series adds a Linux TEE driver for MbedTEE, a Trusted
Execution Environment for embedded systems
(https://github.com/mbedtee).
Two RPC transports are provided for systems where platform
firmware or board configuration has already established the
REE/TEE separation before Linux boots:
- ARM/ARM64: SMC calls and GIC SPI notifications (TrustZone)
- RISC-V: shared-memory ring buffers and IMSIC MSI notifications
The driver implements the TEE subsystem interface (tee_driver_ops)
and provides GlobalPlatform TEE Client API support, dynamic shared
memory registration, and tee-supplicant support for REE filesystem
and RPMB operations.
The series is structured as follows:
[1/3] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: add mbedtee
[2/3] dt-bindings: firmware: add mbedtee,tee binding
[3/3] tee: add MbedTEE driver
---
Changes in v4:
- 0002: Move reserved-memory region descriptions into
memory-region-names property (Rob)
- 0002: Define memory-region-names item order at top level; keep
per-branch name count constraints (maxItems: 2 / minItems: 3) (Rob)
- 0003: Harden ring and RPC handling against malformed input:
- Validate both ring indices; bound async ring skip and resync
the reader on corrupt framing
- Enforce RPC handler modes (COMPLETE_REE async-only, supplicant
commands sync-only)
- Reference-count rpc_call objects; fix use-after-free on
interrupted calls; abort and free leftover calls at teardown
- Add XA_FLAGS_LOCK_IRQ to the rpc_calls xarray
- Fix supp_recv/supp_abort_all race; malformed supp_send unblocks
the worker instead of hanging it
- Reject TEE-changed parameter attributes
- Report the wire error on failed supplicant requests; fail
oversized requests instead of requeueing them forever
- Wait for R2T ring space with a bounded backoff; bound
COMPLETE_TEE retries and stop them at teardown
- Match the supplicant context when dispatching supp_send
- Access complete_work_pending under ring_lock
- Serialize RPC submission against shutdown and reject new
calls once teardown starts
- Quiesce all RPC activity before tee_device_unregister() so
parked waiters cannot deadlock teardown
- Bound non-interruptible RISC-V waits so a hung TEE cannot
block ioctls forever
- Track closing state on sessions; reject concurrent
close/invoke/cancel races
- Quarantine TEE-owned call objects at release instead of
risking a cross-world use-after-free
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260720073558.799755-1-xing.xl.loong@gmail.com/
Changes in v3:
- 0002: Drop all phandle stub nodes from examples.
- 0002: Remove redundant required: - interrupts from then branch.
- 0002: Simplify title and description.
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260702151115.544016-1-xing.xl.loong@gmail.com/
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260701132514.186953-1-xing.xl.loong@gmail.com/
Changes in v2:
- 0002: Fix DT binding review comments from Krzysztof Kozlowski:
- Drop $nodename, "YAML devicetree binding" wording, property descriptions
- Rename compatible string to mbedtee,tee
- Rename memory regions: rpc-t2r-ring -> t2r-ring, rpc-t2r-shm -> t2r-shm,
rpc-r2t-ring -> r2t-ring
- Add memory-region / memory-region-names to required
- Simplify allOf constraints (drop redundant else-branch items)
- Rewrite description to describe hardware/firmware, not the binding or driver
- Drop all irrelevant platform nodes (gic, cpus, reserved-memory)
- Add maxItems: 1 constraint to interrupts property (Sashiko AI review)
- 0003:
- Fix supp_release incorrectly aborting unclaimed requests on close
- Fix potential tee_shm double-free on supp_recv error path
- Fix async RPC ring skip leaving orphaned payload bytes
- Fix COMPLETE_TEE retry to also handle transient -ENOMEM on RISC-V
- Fix session leak on close_session allocation failure:
release kernel resources before sending RPC
---
Xing Loong (3):
dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: add mbedtee
dt-bindings: firmware: add mbedtee,tee binding
tee: add MbedTEE driver
.../bindings/firmware/mbedtee,tee.yaml | 102 +++
.../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml | 2 +
Documentation/tee/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/tee/mbedtee.rst | 155 ++++
MAINTAINERS | 9 +
drivers/tee/Kconfig | 3 +-
drivers/tee/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/tee/mbedtee/Kconfig | 20 +
drivers/tee/mbedtee/Makefile | 11 +
drivers/tee/mbedtee/core.c | 260 +++++++
drivers/tee/mbedtee/mbedtee_drv.h | 289 ++++++++
drivers/tee/mbedtee/mbedtee_msg.h | 219 ++++++
drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_callee.c | 697 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_callee_arm.c | 91 +++
drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_callee_riscv.c | 203 +++++
drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_caller.c | 697 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_caller_arm.c | 70 ++
drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_caller_riscv.c | 238 ++++++
drivers/tee/mbedtee/shm_pool.c | 105 +++
drivers/tee/mbedtee/shm_pool.h | 15 +
drivers/tee/mbedtee/supp.c | 311 ++++++++
include/uapi/linux/tee.h | 1 +
22 files changed, 3499 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/mbedtee,tee.yaml
create mode 100644 Documentation/tee/mbedtee.rst
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/core.c
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/mbedtee_drv.h
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/mbedtee_msg.h
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_callee.c
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_callee_arm.c
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_callee_riscv.c
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_caller.c
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_caller_arm.c
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/rpc_caller_riscv.c
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/shm_pool.c
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/shm_pool.h
create mode 100644 drivers/tee/mbedtee/supp.c
base-commit: 03e2778d1f11de9260543f969e9e888a1c2bf830
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