tee: add tee_shm_alloc_kernel_buf()

commit dc7019b7d0e188d4093b34bd0747ed0d668c63bf upstream.

Adds a new function tee_shm_alloc_kernel_buf() to allocate shared memory
from a kernel driver. This function can later be made more lightweight
by unnecessary dma-buf export.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tee/tee_shm.c b/drivers/tee/tee_shm.c
index 09ddcd06c715..1b4b4a1ba91d 100644
--- a/drivers/tee/tee_shm.c
+++ b/drivers/tee/tee_shm.c
@@ -219,6 +219,24 @@ struct tee_shm *tee_shm_priv_alloc(struct tee_device *teedev, size_t size)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tee_shm_priv_alloc);
 
+/**
+ * tee_shm_alloc_kernel_buf() - Allocate shared memory for kernel buffer
+ * @ctx:	Context that allocates the shared memory
+ * @size:	Requested size of shared memory
+ *
+ * The returned memory registered in secure world and is suitable to be
+ * passed as a memory buffer in parameter argument to
+ * tee_client_invoke_func(). The memory allocated is later freed with a
+ * call to tee_shm_free().
+ *
+ * @returns a pointer to 'struct tee_shm'
+ */
+struct tee_shm *tee_shm_alloc_kernel_buf(struct tee_context *ctx, size_t size)
+{
+	return tee_shm_alloc(ctx, size, TEE_SHM_MAPPED | TEE_SHM_DMA_BUF);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tee_shm_alloc_kernel_buf);
+
 struct tee_shm *tee_shm_register(struct tee_context *ctx, unsigned long addr,
 				 size_t length, u32 flags)
 {