Add a TPM Passthrough backend driver implementation

This patch is based of off version 9 of Stefan Berger's patch series
  "QEMU Trusted Platform Module (TPM) integration"
and adds a new backend driver for it.

This patch adds a passthrough backend driver for passing commands sent to the
emulated TPM device directly to a TPM device opened on the host machine.
Thus it is possible to use a hardware TPM device in a system running on QEMU,
providing the ability to access a TPM in a special state (e.g. after a Trusted
Boot).

This functionality is being used in the acTvSM Trusted Virtualization Platform
which is available on [1].

Usage example:
  qemu-system-x86_64 -tpmdev passthrough,id=tpm0,path=/dev/tpm0 \
                     -device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm0 \
                     -cdrom test.iso -boot d

Some notes about the host TPM:
The TPM needs to be enabled and activated. If that's not the case one
has to go through the BIOS/UEFI and enable and activate that TPM for TPM
commands to work as expected.
It may be necessary to boot the kernel using tpm_tis.force=1 in the boot
command line or 'modprobe tpm_tis force=1' in case of using it as a module.

Regards,
Andreas Niederl, Stefan Berger

[1] http://trustedjava.sourceforge.net/

Signed-off-by: Andreas Niederl <andreas.niederl@iaik.tugraz.at>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-id: 1361987275-26289-6-git-send-email-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Stefan Berger 2013-02-27 12:47:53 -05:00 committed by Anthony Liguori
parent ab214c2960
commit 4549a8b7ee
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@ -2221,7 +2221,8 @@ DEFHEADING()
DEFHEADING(TPM device options:)
DEF("tpmdev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_tpmdev, \
"-tpmdev [<type>],id=str[,option][,option][,...]\n",
"-tpmdev passthrough,id=id[,path=path]\n"
" use path to provide path to a character device; default is /dev/tpm0\n",
QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
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@ -2231,6 +2232,7 @@ The general form of a TPM device option is:
@item -tpmdev @var{backend} ,id=@var{id} [,@var{options}]
@findex -tpmdev
Backend type must be:
@option{passthrough}.
The specific backend type will determine the applicable options.
The @code{-tpmdev} option requires a @code{-device} option.
@ -2242,6 +2244,38 @@ Use 'help' to print all available TPM backend types.
qemu -tpmdev help
@end example
@item -tpmdev passthrough, id=@var{id}, path=@var{path}
(Linux-host only) Enable access to the host's TPM using the passthrough
driver.
@option{path} specifies the path to the host's TPM device, i.e., on
a Linux host this would be @code{/dev/tpm0}.
@option{path} is optional and by default @code{/dev/tpm0} is used.
Some notes about using the host's TPM with the passthrough driver:
The TPM device accessed by the passthrough driver must not be
used by any other application on the host.
Since the host's firmware (BIOS/UEFI) has already initialized the TPM,
the VM's firmware (BIOS/UEFI) will not be able to initialize the
TPM again and may therefore not show a TPM-specific menu that would
otherwise allow the user to configure the TPM, e.g., allow the user to
enable/disable or activate/deactivate the TPM.
Further, if TPM ownership is released from within a VM then the host's TPM
will get disabled and deactivated. To enable and activate the
TPM again afterwards, the host has to be rebooted and the user is
required to enter the firmware's menu to enable and activate the TPM.
If the TPM is left disabled and/or deactivated most TPM commands will fail.
To create a passthrough TPM use the following two options:
@example
-tpmdev passthrough,id=tpm0 -device tpm-tis,tpmdev=tpm0
@end example
Note that the @code{-tpmdev} id is @code{tpm0} and is referenced by
@code{tpmdev=tpm0} in the device option.
@end table
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