[PATCH v2 0/2] tpm: OP-TEE transport core for discrete and firmware TPMs
From: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz
Date: Tue Nov 10 2026 - 13:57:39 EST
This adds a driver for a discrete TPM that OP-TEE owns and the normal
world cannot reach directly, and factors the shared OP-TEE TEE transport
into a small core so the existing fTPM driver uses it too:
- a transport core shared by the OP-TEE TPM front-ends;
- a new discrete TPM front-end;
- the fTPM driver converted onto the core, keeping its name, its
platform/OF binding and its shutdown path.
Patch 1 is the feature; patch 2 is the fTPM conversion that justifies the
core. Both front-ends were exercised on the Qualcomm Lemans EVK over the
shared core: the discrete ST33 TPM (patch 1) and the MS-TPM-20 firmware
TPM TA (patch 2), each presenting a working /dev/tpm0 (tpm2_getrandom,
PCR read). The fTPM TA is the same MS-TPM-20 reference the existing
tpm_ftpm_tee platforms use.
This is the normal-world half. The secure-world OP-TEE support it binds
to -- the in-core TPM2 SPI (TIS) driver and the mediator pseudo TA that
relays commands to it -- is under review separately:
OP-TEE support: https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/pull/8155
locality 4: https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/issues/8160
(design follow-up: the secure world policing
normal-world locality access to the shared chip)
Build and test it on the Qualcomm Lemans EVK (a discrete ST33 TPM on
SPI, owned by OP-TEE):
https://qualcomm-linux.github.io/qcom-buildroot/lemans/quick-start.html
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20261026163259.1900439-1-jorge.ramirez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Changes since v1:
- split the shared TEE transport into a core; the discrete chip is now a
thin front-end, the tpm_tis_core-style solution that was asked for.
- convert the fTPM driver onto the same core instead of duplicating it.
- use an optee-prefixed name for the new modules; the fTPM driver keeps
its name, no module rename.
- rewrite the commit message with a plain description of the components
and the rationale for a separate front-end.
- drop the explicit zeroing in favour of initialisers, and reword the
module description.
Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz (2):
tpm: add OP-TEE transport core and a discrete TPM driver
tpm_ftpm_tee: use the tpm_optee transport core
MAINTAINERS | 8 +
drivers/char/tpm/Kconfig | 28 +++
drivers/char/tpm/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.c | 295 ++----------------------------
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.h | 35 ----
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_optee.c | 253 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_optee.h | 32 ++++
drivers/char/tpm/tpm_optee_dtpm.c | 67 +++++++
8 files changed, 408 insertions(+), 312 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.h
create mode 100644 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_optee.c
create mode 100644 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_optee.h
create mode 100644 drivers/char/tpm/tpm_optee_dtpm.c
base-commit: c03c1a14507dfaf8b856c2608f9ac216021fc222
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