Hi,
We are using op-tee 3.10 in our i.MX6UL-based product and we are running into a small problem we hope you can help us out with. Apologies for the large mail; It's mostly pictures.
The nature of our product requires us to protect access to the display contents. To achieve this, we have added a display driver to op-tee and have allocated the frame buffers in op-tee too.
We are conforming to the memory-map as layed out in .../core/arch/arm/include/mm/generic_ram_layout.h:
TEE RAM layout without CFG_WITH_PAGER
+----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_TZDRAM_START | TEE core secure RAM (TEE_RAM) | +----------------------------------+ | Trusted Application RAM (TA_RAM) | +----------------------------------+ | SDP test memory (optional) | +----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_TZDRAM_START + CFG_TZDRAM_SIZE
+----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_SHMEM_START | Non-secure static SHM | +----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_SHMEM_START + CFG_SHMEM_SIZE
With this memory map in mind, we came up with the following solution:
+----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_DRAM_BASE | | | Non-secure memory | | | +----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_TZDRAM_START | TEE core secure RAM (TEE_RAM) | +----------------------------------+ | Trusted Application RAM (TA_RAM) | +----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_POS_SEC_FB0_START | Secure frame buffer 0 | +----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_POS_SEC_FB1_START | Secure frame buffer 1 | +----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_SHMEM_START (== CFG_TZDRAM_START + CFG_TZDRAM_SIZE) | Non-secure static SHM | +----------------------------------+ <-- Top of DDR (CFG_SHMEM_START + CFG_SHMEM_SIZE) CFG_DDR_SIZE = 0x10000000 CFG_SHMEM_SIZE = 0x00200000 CFG_SHMEM_START = ($(CFG_DRAM_BASE) + $(CFG_DDR_SIZE) - $(CFG_SHMEM_SIZE)) CFG_SEC_FB_SIZE = 0x00096000 CFG_POS_SEC_FB1_START = ($(CFG_SHMEM_START) - $(CFG_SEC_FB_SIZE)) CFG_POS_SEC_FB0_START = ($(CFG_POS_SEC_FB1_START) - $(CFG_SEC_FB_SIZE)) CFG_TZDRAM_START = ($(CFG_DRAM_BASE) + 0x0e000000) CFG_TZDRAM_SIZE = ($(CFG_SHMEM_START) - $(CFG_TZDRAM_START))
This solution keeps the frame buffers within the region CFG_TZDRAM_START:CFG_TZDRAM_SIZE, but when booting the system, we notice an overlap between TA_RAM and both frame buffer areas:
D/TC:0 dump_mmap_table:732 type TA_RAM va 0x88c00000..0x8a8fffff pa 0x8e100000..0x8fdfffff size 0x01d00000 (pgdir) ... D/TC:0 dump_mmap_table:732 type RAM_SEC va 0x8ded4000..0x8df69fff pa 0x8fd6a000..0x8fdfffff size 0x00096000 (smallpg) D/TC:0 dump_mmap_table:732 type RAM_SEC va 0x8df6a000..0x8dffffff pa 0x8fcd4000..0x8fd69fff size 0x00096000 (smallpg)
Without fully comprehending how memory is allocated, we fear that this situation will allow TA's to be loaded into these frame buffer areas. To mitigate this, we came up with this alternative:
+----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_DRAM_BASE | | | Non-secure memory | | | +----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_TZDRAM_START | TEE core secure RAM (TEE_RAM) | +----------------------------------+ | Trusted Application RAM (TA_RAM) | +----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_POS_SEC_FB0_START (== CFG_TZDRAM_START + CFG_TZDRAM_SIZE) | Secure frame buffer 0 | +----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_POS_SEC_FB1_START | Secure frame buffer 1 | +----------------------------------+ <-- CFG_SHMEM_START | Non-secure static SHM | +----------------------------------+ <-- Top of DDR (CFG_SHMEM_START + CFG_SHMEM_SIZE) CFG_DDR_SIZE = 0x10000000 CFG_SHMEM_SIZE = 0x00200000 CFG_SHMEM_START = ($(CFG_DRAM_BASE) + $(CFG_DDR_SIZE) - $(CFG_SHMEM_SIZE)) CFG_SEC_FB_SIZE = 0x00096000 CFG_POS_SEC_FB1_START = ($(CFG_SHMEM_START) - $(CFG_SEC_FB_SIZE)) CFG_POS_SEC_FB0_START = ($(CFG_POS_SEC_FB1_START) - $(CFG_SEC_FB_SIZE)) CFG_TZDRAM_START = ($(CFG_DRAM_BASE) + 0x0e000000) CFG_TZDRAM_SIZE = ($(CFG_POS_SEC_FB0_START) - $(CFG_TZDRAM_START))
This solution puts the frame buffers outside the region CFG_TZDRAM_START:CFG_TZDRAM_SIZE so they no longer overlap with TA_RAM. However, when booting the system, op-tee panics:
D/TC:0 dump_mmap_table:732 type RAM_SEC va 0x8c2d4000..0x8c369fff pa 0x8fd6a000..0x8fdfffff size 0x00096000 (smallpg) D/TC:0 dump_mmap_table:732 type RAM_SEC va 0x8c36a000..0x8c3fffff pa 0x8fcd4000..0x8fd69fff size 0x00096000 (smallpg) ... D/TC:0 dump_mmap_table:732 type TA_RAM va 0x8c400000..0x8dfd3fff pa 0x8e100000..0x8fcd3fff size 0x01bd4000 (smallpg) ... E/TC:0 0 check_phys_mem_is_outside:332 Non-sec mem (0x8fcd4000:0x12c000) overlaps map (type 12 0x8fd6a000:0x96000) E/TC:0 0 Panic at core/arch/arm/mm/core_mmu.c:336 <check_phys_mem_is_outside> E/TC:0 0 TEE load address @ 0x8e000000 E/TC:0 0 Call stack: E/TC:0 0 0x8e005621 E/TC:0 0 0x8e01d397 E/TC:0 0 0x8e005aaf E/TC:0 0 0x8e004da7 E/TC:0 0 0x8e000174
In this situation, the memory area intended for the frame buffers (0x8fd6a000:0x96000) is now implicitly regarded as non-secure RAM, regardless of us registering it as MEM_AREA_RAM_SEC in main.c:
register_phys_mem(MEM_AREA_RAM_SEC, CFG_POS_SEC_FB0_START, CFG_SEC_FB_SIZE); register_phys_mem(MEM_AREA_RAM_SEC, CFG_POS_SEC_FB1_START, CFG_SEC_FB_SIZE);
Could you please confirm (or deny) that our first solution is the proper way to allocate these secure frame buffers and that they will not be overwritten by the process of loading TAs? If this is not the proper way, could you give us some pointers on how to do this? We do not feel comfortable allocating such large areas on the heap because of good taste and because we're not sure yet whether or not there are additional alignment requirement for these frame buffers. Perhaps something similar to the Linux slab-allocator is available?
Thank you in advance for your help.
With kind regards,
Robert Deliën.