Labelled baseline on the proven loop, quick taps only: enrolled finger 2 of 10,
wrong finger 0 of 5. Every press was one frame.
The rising-edge frame costs ~700 ms because it runs the matcher twice -- event 5
and event 7 on the same image, two verdicts back. A human tap is over before a
second frame can exist at that cost. Keeping only the touch event keeps what
every recorded match followed, halves the rising frame, and may be the
difference between one frame per tap and two. It is a single variable against a
labelled baseline; if the rate drops, it comes out.
Also fixes fptrial.sh's latency column, which was all zero: busybox date has no
%N, so it reads /proc/uptime instead.
Thirteen real fprintd-verify runs produced four matches and nine misses and no
rate, because nothing recorded which finger each run used. This script runs the
protocol -- N quick taps with the enrolled finger, then N with a different one
-- tells the user which finger and which tap they are on, and records the label
and the wall-clock latency from prompt to client result per tap. The daemon's
transcript has the frames; this has the labels. A loop change is measured
against this, one variable at a time.
The probe becomes the thing the plan was for. Three threads: the supplicant
services QTEE's callbacks; the worker owns the sensor rail, the QTEE session
and the trustlet and is the only thread that ever invokes it, so every
enrolment and authentication is serialised by construction; the main thread
runs the GLib loop and speaks fprintd's own D-Bus interface, never touching
the trustlet directly.
Session is the bring-up from a cold /dev/tee0 to a calibrated sensor, plus the
enrol and verify loops as methods that take a cancel flag and progress
callbacks. Worker is a job queue on a pthread with an 8 MiB stack -- musl's
default is 128 KiB and the session keeps request buffers on the stack. Results
come back through g_idle_add so signals are emitted on the thread that owns
the connection.
net.reactivated.Fprint is implemented rather than wrapped: Manager with
GetDevices/GetDefaultDevice, Device with Claim/Release, EnrollStart/Stop,
VerifyStart/Stop, ListEnrolledFingers and the three Delete variants, the three
signals, and the five properties. Owning fprintd's name is what lets
pam_fprintd, the Plasma KCM and fprintd-enroll work unmodified.
Two honest limits. Authorisation is the conservative rule -- you may act on
your own prints, root on anyone's -- because polkit is not in this milestone.
And DeleteEnrolledFingers removes the finger's NAME only: FF_CMD_TA_REMOVE
exists but its payload is not reverse-engineered, and guessing at a command
that writes to the store is exactly how an index got invalidated earlier
today. A deleted finger loses its name and stops being offered; its template
still occupies a slot in the group. Logged as such.
The finger-name map is written per user under the state directory, tmp-file
and rename. An enrolment records the fid the trustlet reported in the touch
event's response; if none was reported the finger cannot be named yet, and
the daemon says so rather than inventing one.
Verified on the phone as a systemd unit: owns the bus name, init chain
complete, floor calibrated, ready.
fingerprintd's own code now talks to QTEE. On the phone:
root object on /dev/tee0
client env obtained (uid 0, 13-byte credentials)
QSEECOM-compat app loader (UID 122) opened
The credentials object is ours rather than libqcomtee's. Upstream's exists only
to build a thirteen-byte CBOR map and drags in QCBOR to do it, so
packaging/make-libqcomtee.sh compiles the two sources that matter and drops
credentials_obj.c entirely -- nothing else references it, and the library then
has no dependency beyond libc. The map is built in Fingerprintd:Tee where it is
pinned byte-for-byte against the string verified on-device, and the object's
two-op read protocol is served here.
Three interop details, all of which cost a build cycle:
* libqcomtee's headers carry no extern "C" guard, having only ever been
consumed from C, so everything came out C++-mangled. They also pull in
<stdatomic.h> and <stdio.h>, which under libc++ drag in templates that may
not appear inside extern "C" -- so those are included first.
* tee_call_t's second parameter is unsigned long on glibc and int on musl.
The native build is glibc and the phone is musl; both forms are compiled.
* On the callback path a UBUF_OUTPUT param arrives with addr = NULL. The
dispatcher supplies the buffer, so a handler POINTS the param at its own
storage rather than writing through the incoming address. Doing the latter
is a null dereference that takes the supplicant thread with it, which is
how the first run against real QTEE ended -- with the correct behaviour
already spelled out in the module comment above the code that ignored it.
That comment now says so in as many words.
packaging/make-sysroot.sh populates a minimal Alpine aarch64 rootfs with
apk-tools-static, so a cross build needs no root, no qemu and no phone. Adapted
from imsd's, plus glib-dev for the bus layer that is coming.
Building against a real Alpine sysroot means the binary links dynamically
against the phone's own musl and libc++ -- libc++, libc++abi, libunwind and
libgcc_s are all already on pmOS. The harness this daemon replaces had to be
built -static, but only because it was built with the host's glibc toolchain;
that constraint was never about the target.
The pipeline is proven end to end rather than assumed: the cross-built binary
runs on the phone, and all five core suites pass there too -- on the real
hardware, not just under qemu-aarch64. That matters for modules that are almost
entirely little-endian field packing and offset arithmetic.
