[PATCH v2 0/4] rpmb subsystem, uapi and virtio-rpmb driver

[Alex Bennée]

Hi,

This is another attempt to come up with an RPMB API for the kernel.
The last discussion of this was in the thread:

  Subject: [RFC PATCH  0/5] RPMB internal and user-space API + WIP virtio-rpmb frontend
  Date: Wed,  3 Mar 2021 13:54:55 +0000
  Message-Id: <20210303135500.24673-1-alex.bennee@xxxxxxxxxx>

The series provides for the RPMB sub-system, a new chardev API driven
by ioctls and a full multi-block capable virtio-rpmb driver. You can
find a working vhost-user backend in my QEMU branch here:

  https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/commits/virtio/vhost-user-rpmb-v2

The branch is a little messy but I'll be posting a cleaned up version
in the following weeks. The only real changes to the backend is the
multi-block awareness and some tweaks to deal with QEMU internals
handling VirtIO config space messages which weren't previously
exercised. The test.sh script in tools/rpmb works through the various
transactions but isn't comprehensive.

Changes since the last posting:

  - frame construction is mostly back in userspace

  The previous discussion showed there wasn't any appetite for using
  the kernels keyctl() interface so userspace yet again takes
  responsibility for constructing most* frames. Currently these are
  all pure virtio-rpmb frames but the code is written so we can plug
  in additional frame types. The virtio-rpmb driver does some
  validation and in some cases (* read-blocks) constructs the request
  frame in the driver. It would take someone implementing a driver for
  another RPMB device type to see if this makes sense.

  - user-space interface is still split across several ioctls

  Although 3 of the ioctls share the common rpmb_ioc_reqresp_cmd
  structure it does mean things like capacity, write_count and
  read_blocks can have their own structure associated with the
  command.

As before I shall follow up with the QEMU based vhost-user backend and
hopefully a rust-vmm re-implementation. However I've no direct
interest in implementing the interfaces to real hardware. I leave that
to people who have access to such things and are willing to take up
the maintainer burden if this is merged.

Regards,

Alex
    

Alex Bennée (4):
  rpmb: add Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) subsystem
  char: rpmb: provide a user space interface
  rpmb: create virtio rpmb frontend driver
  tools rpmb: add RPBM access tool

 .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst      |    1 +
 MAINTAINERS                                   |    9 +
 drivers/Kconfig                               |    2 +
 drivers/Makefile                              |    1 +
 drivers/rpmb/Kconfig                          |   28 +
 drivers/rpmb/Makefile                         |    9 +
 drivers/rpmb/cdev.c                           |  309 +++++
 drivers/rpmb/core.c                           |  439 +++++++
 drivers/rpmb/rpmb-cdev.h                      |   17 +
 drivers/rpmb/virtio_rpmb.c                    |  518 ++++++++
 include/linux/rpmb.h                          |  182 +++
 include/uapi/linux/rpmb.h                     |   99 ++
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_rpmb.h              |   54 +
 tools/Makefile                                |   16 +-
 tools/rpmb/.gitignore                         |    2 +
 tools/rpmb/Makefile                           |   41 +
 tools/rpmb/key                                |    1 +
 tools/rpmb/rpmb.c                             | 1083 +++++++++++++++++
 tools/rpmb/test.sh                            |   22 +
 19 files changed, 2828 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/rpmb/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/rpmb/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/rpmb/cdev.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/rpmb/core.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/rpmb/rpmb-cdev.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/rpmb/virtio_rpmb.c
 create mode 100644 include/linux/rpmb.h
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/rpmb.h
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/virtio_rpmb.h
 create mode 100644 tools/rpmb/.gitignore
 create mode 100644 tools/rpmb/Makefile
 create mode 100644 tools/rpmb/key
 create mode 100644 tools/rpmb/rpmb.c
 create mode 100755 tools/rpmb/test.sh

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