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| author | Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> | 2025-07-19 13:27:02 +0300 | 
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| committer | Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> | 2025-07-23 02:23:18 +0300 | 
| commit | 0e0546eabcd6c19765a8dbf5b5db3723e7b0ea75 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c645964b3fef40178c9feddd6a18243c92a0cc7 /scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py | |
| parent | faddec84aa8a600f5f6857cdd9b9ea29f7cf60fb (diff) | |
firmware: arm_ffa: Change initcall level of ffa_init() to rootfs_initcall
The Linux IMA (Integrity Measurement Architecture) subsystem used for
secure boot, file integrity, or remote attestation cannot be a loadable
module for few reasons listed below:
 o Boot-Time Integrity: IMA’s main role is to measure and appraise files
 before they are used. This includes measuring critical system files during
 early boot (e.g., init, init scripts, login binaries). If IMA were a
 module, it would be loaded too late to cover those.
 o TPM Dependency: IMA integrates tightly with the TPM to record
 measurements into PCRs. The TPM must be initialized early (ideally before
 init_ima()), which aligns with IMA being built-in.
 o Security Model: IMA is part of a Trusted Computing Base (TCB). Making it
 a module would weaken the security model, as a potentially compromised
 system could delay or tamper with its initialization.
IMA must be built-in to ensure it starts measuring from the earliest
possible point in boot which inturn implies TPM must be initialised and
ready to use before IMA.
To enable integration of tpm_event_log with the IMA subsystem, the TPM
drivers (tpm_crb and tpm_crb_ffa) also needs to be built-in. However with
FF-A driver also being initialised at device initcall level, it can lead to
an initialization order issue where:
 - crb_acpi_driver_init() may run before tpm_crb_ffa_driver()_init and
   ffa_init()
 - As a result, probing the TPM device via CRB over FFA is deferred
 - ima_init() (called as a late initcall) runs before deferred probe
   completes, IMA fails to find the TPM and logs the below error:
   |  ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
Eventually it fails to generate boot_aggregate with PCR values.
Because of the above stated dependency, the ffa driver needs to initialised
before tpm_crb_ffa module to ensure IMA finds the TPM successfully when
present.
[ jarkko: reformatted some of the paragraphs because they were going past
  the 75 character boundary. ]
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
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