[PATCH 1/6] tee: qcomtee: Track the object invocation context

Harshal Dev via OP-TEE <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:41:27 +0530
Newsgroups org.trustedfirmware.lists.op-tee,org.kernel.vger.linux-arm-msm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <20260707-qcom_uefisecapp_migrate_qcomtee-v1-1-f659cbd5d04c@oss.qualcomm.com>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Harshal Dev <[email protected]>
---
 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