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authorLinus Torvalds2019-09-16 13:34:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2019-09-16 13:34:04 -0700
commita7bd4bcf138e7ec95c00d55fee158f6be378029b (patch)
treee7fabdb4357243ebe96e757a3ea9a0532bc66b36 /Documentation
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Merge tag 'tpmdd-next-20190902' of git://git.infradead.org/users/jjs/linux-tpmdd
Pull tpm updates from Jarkko Sakkinen: "A new driver for fTPM living inside ARM TEE was added this round. In addition to that, there are three bug fixes and one clean up" * tag 'tpmdd-next-20190902' of git://git.infradead.org/users/jjs/linux-tpmdd: tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee: Document fTPM TEE driver tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee: A driver for firmware TPM running inside TEE tpm: Remove a deprecated comments about implicit sysfs locking tpm_tis_core: Set TPM_CHIP_FLAG_IRQ before probing for interrupts tpm_tis_core: Turn on the TPM before probing IRQ's MAINTAINERS: fix style in KEYS-TRUSTED entry
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/tpm/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.rst27
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
index 6992bbbbffab..d61a203138cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
@@ -575,6 +575,8 @@ patternProperties:
description: Micro Crystal AG
"^micron,.*":
description: Micron Technology Inc.
+ "^microsoft,.*":
+ description: Microsoft Corporation
"^mikroe,.*":
description: MikroElektronika d.o.o.
"^miniand,.*":
diff --git a/Documentation/security/tpm/index.rst b/Documentation/security/tpm/index.rst
index 3296533e54cf..487852fda33e 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/tpm/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/security/tpm/index.rst
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ Trusted Platform Module documentation
tpm_vtpm_proxy
xen-tpmfront
+ tpm_ftpm_tee
diff --git a/Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.rst b/Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8c2bae16e3d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/security/tpm/tpm_ftpm_tee.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+=============================================
+Firmware TPM Driver
+=============================================
+
+This document describes the firmware Trusted Platform Module (fTPM)
+device driver.
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+This driver is a shim for firmware implemented in ARM's TrustZone
+environment. The driver allows programs to interact with the TPM in the same
+way they would interact with a hardware TPM.
+
+Design
+======
+
+The driver acts as a thin layer that passes commands to and from a TPM
+implemented in firmware. The driver itself doesn't contain much logic and is
+used more like a dumb pipe between firmware and kernel/userspace.
+
+The firmware itself is based on the following paper:
+https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ftpm1.pdf
+
+When the driver is loaded it will expose ``/dev/tpmX`` character devices to
+userspace which will enable userspace to communicate with the firmware TPM
+through this device.