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From: Rouven Czerwinski <r.czerwinski@pengutronix.de>
To: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>, barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/16] pbl: add sha256 and piggy verification to PBL
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 14:57:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9a058ad53ea71be1eefd95d29c3ac5a8b8af93f.camel@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1565002851.2323.7.camel@pengutronix.de>

On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 13:00 +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Montag, den 05.08.2019, 11:23 +0200 schrieb Rouven Czerwinski:
> > +config PBL_VERIFY_PIGGY
> > +	depends on ARM
> 
> Why? What exactly is ARM specific about this mechanism?

Currently only the arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c version implements the
piggy verification.

> > +	bool "Verify piggydata"
> > > +	help
> > > +	  Use a PBL builtin sha256sum to verify the piggydata before
> > > decompression.
> > > +	  WARNING: your board will not boot if a mismatch is detected,
> > > enable DEBUG_LL
> > > +	  to see the builtin and calculated hash.
> > +	  This effectively locks a given PBL to the matching main
> > barebox.
> 
> Does it make sense to have this as a user-visible option? We want
> this
> in a very specific use-case, in which case it's selected anyways, so
> the user can't break the security model via a wrong configuration. I
> don't see any use for piggydata verification outside of this use-
> case.
> 

I agree, I'll make this user invisible.

Regards,
Rouven Czerwinski
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-05 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-05  9:23 [PATCH v2 00/16] HAB for i.MX8MQ Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] i.MX: HABv4: ignore return for i.MX28/6 initcalls Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] i.MX: HABv4: implement interface for i.MX8MQ Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05 12:12   ` Lucas Stach
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] mach-imx: enable HAB on i.MX8MQ Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] arm: lib: add CSF section between PBL and piggy Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] esdhc-pbl: extract header parsing from image start Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] esdhc-pbl: add piggy load function Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] sections: fix macro for barebox_pbl_size Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] scripts: imx: support signing for i.MX8MQ Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] images: always build sha256sum into pbl Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05 12:20   ` Lucas Stach
2019-08-05 12:52     ` Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] pbl: add sha256 and piggy verification to PBL Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05 11:00   ` Lucas Stach
2019-08-05 12:57     ` Rouven Czerwinski [this message]
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] stdio: puts and putchar static inline wrappers Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] pbl: support panic with log output Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] arm: uncompress: verify sha256 if enabled Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05 10:42   ` Lucas Stach
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] mach-imx: add gencsf header for i.MX8MQ Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] mach-imx: hab: select piggy verification for i.MX8 Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05 10:39   ` Lucas Stach
2019-08-05  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] boards: nxp-mx8-evk: rework to different boot flow Rouven Czerwinski
2019-08-05 10:37   ` Lucas Stach
2019-08-05 12:59     ` Rouven Czerwinski

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