tree 0e537c20b05402d02bc76b04b9eaf819f1cf39a2
parent c0c0a29c83c6149bfad0de0fb25f511596406f23
author Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com> 1694009472 +0200
committer Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com> 1699950091 +0100

docs(threat-model): add a threat model for TF-A with Arm CCA

Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (Arm CCA) support, underpinned by
Arm Realm Management Extension (RME) support, brings in a few important
software and hardware architectural changes in TF-A, which warrants a
new security analysis of the code base. Results of this analysis are
captured in a new threat model document, provided in this patch.

The main changes introduced in TF-A to support Arm CCA / RME are:

 - Presence of a new threat agent: realm world clients.

 - Availability of Arm CCA Hardware Enforced Security (HES) to support
   measured boot and trusted boot.

 - Configuration of the Granule Protection Tables (GPT) for
   inter-world memory protection.

This is only an initial version of the threat model and we expect to
enrich it in the future.

Signed-off-by: Sandrine Bailleux <sandrine.bailleux@arm.com>
Co-authored-by: Manish Pandey <manish.pandey2@arm.com>
Change-Id: Iab84dc724df694511508f90dc76b6d469c4cccd5