On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 08:49 +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> On 4/10/23 20:42, James Bottomley wrote:
> > From: James Bottomley <james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com>
> > 
> > The Microsoft Simulator (mssim) is the reference emulation platform
> > for the TCG TPM 2.0 specification.
> > 
> > https://github.com/Microsoft/ms-tpm-20-ref.git
> > 
> > It exports a fairly simple network socket based protocol on two
> > sockets, one for command (default 2321) and one for control
> > (default
> > 2322).  This patch adds a simple backend that can speak the mssim
> > protocol over the network.  It also allows the two sockets to be
> > specified on the command line.  The benefits are twofold: firstly
> > it
> > gives us a backend that actually speaks a standard TPM emulation
> > protocol instead of the linux specific TPM driver format of the
> > current emulated TPM backend and secondly, using the microsoft
> > protocol, the end point of the emulator can be anywhere on the
> > network, facilitating the cloud use case where a central TPM
> > service
> > can be used over a control network.
> > 
> > The implementation does basic control commands like power off/on,
> > but
> > doesn't implement cancellation or startup.  The former because
> > cancellation is pretty much useless on a fast operating TPM
> > emulator
> > and the latter because this emulator is designed to be used with
> > OVMF
> > which itself does TPM startup and I wanted to validate that.
> > 
> > To run this, simply download an emulator based on the MS
> > specification
> > (package ibmswtpm2 on openSUSE) and run it, then add these two
> > lines
> > to the qemu command and it will use the emulator.
> > 
> >      -tpmdev mssim,id=tpm0 \
> >      -device tpm-crb,tpmdev=tpm0 \
> > 
> > to use a remote emulator replace the first line with
> > 
> >      -tpmdev
> > "{'type':'mssim','id':'tpm0','command':{'type':inet,'host':'remote'
> > ,'port':'2321'}}"
> > 
> > tpm-tis also works as the backend.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <j...@linux.ibm.com>
> > Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > v2: convert to SocketAddr json and use
> > qio_channel_socket_connect_sync()
> > v3: gate control power off by migration state keep control socket
> > disconnected
> >      to test outside influence and add docs.
> > v7: TPMmssim -> TPMMssim; doc and json fixes
> >      Make command socket open each time (makes OS debugging easier)
> > ---
> >   MAINTAINERS              |   6 +
> >   backends/tpm/Kconfig     |   5 +
> >   backends/tpm/meson.build |   1 +
> >   backends/tpm/tpm_mssim.c | 319
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   backends/tpm/tpm_mssim.h |  44 ++++++
> >   docs/specs/tpm.rst       |  39 +++++
> >   qapi/tpm.json            |  32 +++-
> >   softmmu/tpm-hmp-cmds.c   |   9 ++
> >   8 files changed, 451 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >   create mode 100644 backends/tpm/tpm_mssim.c
> >   create mode 100644 backends/tpm/tpm_mssim.h
> 
> 
> > diff --git a/docs/specs/tpm.rst b/docs/specs/tpm.rst
> > index efe124a148..4fe6c5f051 100644
> > --- a/docs/specs/tpm.rst
> > +++ b/docs/specs/tpm.rst
> > @@ -274,6 +274,42 @@ available as a module (assuming a TPM 2 is
> > passed through):
> >     /sys/devices/LNXSYSTEM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/MSFT0101:00/tpm/tpm0/pcr-
> > sha256/9
> >     ...
> >   
> > +The QEMU TPM Microsoft Simulator Device
> > +---------------------------------------
> > +
> > +The Microsoft Simulator (mssim) is the reference emulation
> > platform
> > +for the TCG TPM 2.0 specification.  It provides a reference
> > +implementation for the TPM 2.0 written by Microsoft (See
> > +`ms-tpm-20-ref`_ on github).  The reference implementation starts
> > a
> > +network server and listens for TPM commands on port 2321 and TPM
> > +Platform control commands on port 2322, although these can be
> > altered.
> > +The QEMU mssim TPM backend talks to this implementation.  By
> > default
> > +it connects to the default ports on localhost:
> > +
> > +.. code-block:: console
> > +
> > +  qemu-system-x86_64 <qemu-options> \
> > +    -tpmdev mssim,id=tpm0 \
> > +    -device tpm-crb,tpmdev=tpm0
> > +
> > +
> > +Although it can also communicate with a remote host, which must be
> > +specified as a SocketAddress via json or dotted keys on the
> > command
> > +line for each of the command and control ports:
> > +
> > +.. code-block:: console
> > +
> > +  qemu-system-x86_64 <qemu-options> \
> > +    -tpmdev
> > "{'type':'mssim','id':'tpm0','command':{'type':'inet','host':'remot
> > e','port':'2321'},'control':{'type':'inet','host':'remote','port':'
> > 2322'}}" \
> > +    -device tpm-crb,tpmdev=tpm0
> 
> Did you test running this command line on a big-endian host?

Well no, big endian machines are rather rare nowadays.  However, since
the QIOChannelSocket abstraction is based on SocketAddress, which is a
qapi wrapper around strings, what makes you think the endianness would
matter?

James


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