[PATCH 1/6] tee: qcomtee: Track the object invocation context
From: Harshal Dev
Date: Tue Jul 07 2026 - 02:12:32 EST
QCOMTEE needs to distinguish between object invocations arriving from
kernel clients and user-space clients in order to correctly marshal
UBUF parameters and decide whether certain operations should be permitted.
Add a kernel_ctx flag to struct qcomtee_object_invoke_context to track
the context of object invocation. Objects invoked from the kernel-space
are expected to have the MSB of their 64-bit object-id set to indicate a
kernel context, whereas objects invoked from user-space should not set it.
To ensure this, we restrict the object-id space of user-space invoked
objects to 32-bits. This is in-line with QTEE expectation of 32-bit object
ids.
Signed-off-by: Amirreza Zarrabi <amirreza.zarrabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Harshal Dev <harshal.dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tee/qcomtee/call.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee.h | 6 ++++++
drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee_object.h | 8 ++++++--
drivers/tee/tee_core.c | 4 ++++
4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tee/qcomtee/call.c b/drivers/tee/qcomtee/call.c
index 0efc5646242a..a74a54d67b06 100644
--- a/drivers/tee/qcomtee/call.c
+++ b/drivers/tee/qcomtee/call.c
@@ -397,11 +397,31 @@ static int qcomtee_object_invoke(struct tee_context *ctx,
{
struct qcomtee_context_data *ctxdata = ctx->data;
struct qcomtee_object *object;
+ bool kernel_ctx = false;
int i, ret, result;
if (qcomtee_params_check(params, arg->num_params))
return -EINVAL;
+ /* Obtain the invocation context information from the MSB of the object
+ * `id` field.
+ */
+ kernel_ctx = QCOMTEE_GET_CLIENT_CTX(arg->id);
+ /* User-space identifies a NULL object via a 32-bit TEE_OBJREF_NULL id, whereas
+ * the kernel uses as 64-bit object-id. Hence, we check for a NULL object by
+ * sign-extending the object-id to 64 bits. If user-space is indeed invoking a
+ * NULL object we must extend the object-id to 64-bits from here on so that
+ * QCOMTEE can recognize it.
+ */
+ if (!kernel_ctx && ((s64)(s32)arg->id) == TEE_OBJREF_NULL)
+ arg->id = TEE_OBJREF_NULL;
+
+ /* If the object being invoked is not NULL, drop the MSB from the `id` field to
+ * obtain the actual object-id.
+ */
+ if (arg->id != TEE_OBJREF_NULL)
+ arg->id = QCOMTEE_SANITIZE_OBJ_ID(arg->id);
+
/* First, handle reserved operations: */
if (arg->op == QCOMTEE_MSG_OBJECT_OP_RELEASE) {
del_qtee_object(arg->id, ctxdata);
@@ -411,7 +431,7 @@ static int qcomtee_object_invoke(struct tee_context *ctx,
/* Otherwise, invoke a QTEE object: */
struct qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx *oic __free(kfree) =
- qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx_alloc(ctx);
+ qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx_alloc(ctx, kernel_ctx);
if (!oic)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -648,7 +668,7 @@ static void qcomtee_get_qtee_feature_list(struct tee_context *ctx, u32 id,
int result;
struct qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx *oic __free(kfree) =
- qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx_alloc(ctx);
+ qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx_alloc(ctx, true);
if (!oic)
return;
diff --git a/drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee.h b/drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee.h
index f39bf63fd1c2..5d292a2ff83d 100644
--- a/drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee.h
+++ b/drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee.h
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
#define QCOMTEE_OBJREF_FLAG_USER BIT(1)
#define QCOMTEE_OBJREF_FLAG_MEM BIT(2)
+/* The MSB of the object_id field indicates whether the client is invoking the
+ * object from user context or kernel context.
+ */
+#define QCOMTEE_GET_CLIENT_CTX(x) (((x) >> 63) & 1U)
+#define QCOMTEE_SANITIZE_OBJ_ID(x) ((x) & (BIT(63) - 1))
+
/**
* struct qcomtee - Main service struct.
* @teedev: client device.
diff --git a/drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee_object.h b/drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee_object.h
index 8b4401ecad48..2528d07e4576 100644
--- a/drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee_object.h
+++ b/drivers/tee/qcomtee/qcomtee_object.h
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ static inline int qcomtee_args_len(struct qcomtee_arg *args)
* struct qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx - QTEE context for object invocation.
* @ctx: TEE context for this invocation.
* @flags: flags for the invocation context.
+ * @kernel_ctx: flag that indicates this context is owned by a kernel client.
* @errno: error code for the invocation.
* @object: current object invoked in this callback context.
* @u: array of arguments for the current invocation (+1 for ending arg).
@@ -158,6 +159,7 @@ static inline int qcomtee_args_len(struct qcomtee_arg *args)
struct qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx {
struct tee_context *ctx;
unsigned long flags;
+ bool kernel_ctx;
int errno;
struct qcomtee_object *object;
@@ -172,13 +174,15 @@ struct qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx {
};
static inline struct qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx *
-qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx_alloc(struct tee_context *ctx)
+qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx_alloc(struct tee_context *ctx, bool kernel_ctx)
{
struct qcomtee_object_invoke_ctx *oic;
oic = kzalloc_obj(*oic);
- if (oic)
+ if (oic) {
oic->ctx = ctx;
+ oic->kernel_ctx = kernel_ctx;
+ }
return oic;
}
diff --git a/drivers/tee/tee_core.c b/drivers/tee/tee_core.c
index ef9642d72672..7f986d7fb47f 100644
--- a/drivers/tee/tee_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tee/tee_core.c
@@ -706,6 +706,10 @@ static int tee_ioctl_object_invoke(struct tee_context *ctx,
goto out;
}
+ /* Userspace object-ids are restricted to 32-bits. */
+ if (arg.id > U32_MAX)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
rc = ctx->teedev->desc->ops->object_invoke_func(ctx, &arg, params);
if (rc)
goto out;
--
2.34.1