[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: socfpga: crc-protect SPL on warm boot

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Wed Nov 21 14:08:14 UTC 2018


On 11/21/2018 06:09 AM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> 
> 
> Am Mi., 21. Nov. 2018, 00:11 hat Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de
> <mailto:marex at denx.de>> geschrieben:
> 
>     On 11/20/2018 09:54 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
>     > On 20.11.2018 20:33, Marek Vasut wrote:
>     >> On 11/20/2018 08:22 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
>     >>> From: Simon Goldschmidt <sgoldschmidt at de.pepperl-fuchs.com
>     <mailto:sgoldschmidt at de.pepperl-fuchs.com>>
>     >>>
>     >>> On socfpga gen5, a warm reboot from Linux currently triggers a warm
>     >>> reset via reset manager ctrl register.
>     >>>
>     >>> This currently leads to the boot rom just jumping to onchip ram
>     >>> executing the SPL that is supposed to still be there. This is
>     >>> because we tell the boot rom to do so by writing a magin value
>     >>> the warmramgrp_enable register in arch_early_init_r().
>     >>>
>     >>> However, this can lead to lockups on reboot if this register still
>     >>> contains its magic value but the SPL is not intact any more (e.g.
>     >>> partly overwritten onchip ram).
>     >>>
>     >>> To fis this, store a crc calculated over SPL in sysmgr registers to
>     >>> let the boot rom check it on next warm boot. If the crc is still
>     >>> correct, SPL can be executd from onchip ram. If the crc fails, SPL
>     >>> is loaded from original boot source.
>     >>>
>     >>> The crc that is written to the warmramgrp_crc register is the crc
>     >>> found in the SPL sfp image but with one addiional u32 added. For
>     >>> this, we need to add a function to calculate the updated crc. This
>     >>> is done as a bitwise calculation to keep the code increase small.
>     >>>
>     >>> This whole patch added 96 bytes to .text for SPL for
>     >>> socfpga_socrates_defconfig.
>     >>>
>     >>> Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt
>     <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com
>     <mailto:simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>>
>     >>> ---
>     >>>
>     >>>   arch/arm/mach-socfpga/misc_gen5.c |  9 ----
>     >>>   arch/arm/mach-socfpga/spl_gen5.c  | 73
>     +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>     >>>   2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>     >>>
>     >>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/misc_gen5.c
>     >>> b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/misc_gen5.c
>     >>> index 5fa40937c4..492a3082de 100644
>     >>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/misc_gen5.c
>     >>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/misc_gen5.c
>     >>> @@ -204,15 +204,6 @@ int arch_early_init_r(void)
>     >>>   {
>     >>>       int i;
>     >>>   -    /*
>     >>> -     * Write magic value into magic register to unlock support for
>     >>> -     * issuing warm reset. The ancient kernel code expects this
>     >>> -     * value to be written into the register by the bootloader, so
>     >>> -     * to support that old code, we write it here instead of in the
>     >>> -     * reset_cpu() function just before resetting the CPU.
>     >>> -     */
>     >>> -    writel(0xae9efebc, &sysmgr_regs->romcodegrp_warmramgrp_enable);
>     >>> -
>     >>>       for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)    /* Cache initial SW setting regs */
>     >>>           iswgrp_handoff[i] =
>     readl(&sysmgr_regs->iswgrp_handoff[i]);
>     >>>   diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/spl_gen5.c
>     >>> b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/spl_gen5.c
>     >>> index ccdc661d05..3416e19f79 100644
>     >>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/spl_gen5.c
>     >>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/spl_gen5.c
>     >>> @@ -63,6 +63,76 @@ u32 spl_boot_mode(const u32 boot_device)
>     >>>   }
>     >>>   #endif
>     >>>   +/* This function calculates the CRC32 used by the Cyclone 5 SoC
>     >>> Boot Rom */
>     >>> +static u32 socfpga_boot_crc(u32 crc, const unsigned char *ptr, u32
>     >>> length)
>     >>> +{
>     >>> +    uint i;
>     >>> +    u8 bit;
>     >>> +    unsigned char data;
>     >>> +    const u32 poly = 0x02608edb;
>     >>> +
>     >>> +    for (; length > 0; length--, ptr++) {
>     >>> +        data = *ptr;
>     >>> +        for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
>     >>> +            if (data & 0x80)
>     >>> +                bit = 1;
>     >>> +            else
>     >>> +                bit = 0;
>     >>> +
>     >>> +            data = data << 1;
>     >>> +            if (crc & 0x80000000)
>     >>> +                bit = 1 - bit;
>     >>> +
>     >>> +            if (bit) {
>     >>> +                crc ^= poly;
>     >>> +                crc = crc << 1;
>     >>> +                crc |= 1;
>     >>> +            } else {
>     >>> +                crc = crc << 1;
>     >>> +            }
>     >>> +        }
>     >>> +    }
>     >>> +    return crc;
>     >>> +}
>     >>> +
>     >>> +/*
>     >>> + * Write magic value into magic register to unlock support for the
>     >>> boot rom to
>     >>> + * execute spl from sram on warm reset. This may be required at
>     >>> least on some
>     >>> + * boards that start from qspi where the flash chip might be in a
>     >>> state that
>     >>> + * cannot be handled by the boot rom (e.g. 4 byte mode).
>     >>> + *
>     >>> + * To prevent just jumping to corrupted memory, a crc of the spl is
>     >>> calculated.
>     >>> + * This crc is loaded from the running image, but has to be
>     extended
>     >>> by the
>     >>> + * modified contents of the "datastart" register (i.e. 0xffff0000).
>     >>> + */
>     >>> +static void spl_init_reboot_config(void)
>     >>> +{
>     >>> +    u32 spl_crc, spl_length;
>     >>> +    const u32 spl_start = (u32)__image_copy_start;
>     >>> +    const u32 spl_start_16 = spl_start & 0xffff;
>     >>> +    u32 spl_length_u32;
>     >>> +
>     >>> +    /* load image length from sfp header (includes crc) */
>     >>> +    spl_length_u32 = *(const u16 *)(spl_start + 0x46);
>     >>> +    /* subtract crc */
>     >>> +    spl_length_u32--;
>     >>> +    /* get length in bytes */
>     >>> +    spl_length = spl_length_u32 * 4;
>     >>> +    /* load crc */
>     >>> +    spl_crc = *(const u32 *)(spl_start + spl_length);
>     >>> +    /* undo xor */
>     >>> +    spl_crc ^= 0xffffffff;
>     >>> +    /* add contents of modified datastart register */
>     >>> +    spl_crc = socfpga_boot_crc(spl_crc, (const u8 *)&spl_start, 4);
>     >>> +    /* finalize */
>     >>> +    spl_crc ^= 0xffffffff;
>     >>> +
>     >>> +    writel(0xae9efebc, &sysmgr_regs->romcodegrp_warmramgrp_enable);
>     >>> +    writel(spl_start_16,
>     >>> &sysmgr_regs->romcodegrp_warmramgrp_datastart);
>     >>> +    writel(spl_length, &sysmgr_regs->romcodegrp_warmramgrp_length);
>     >>> +    writel(spl_crc, &sysmgr_regs->romcodegrp_warmramgrp_crc);
>     >>> +}
>     >>> +
>     >>>   void board_init_f(ulong dummy)
>     >>>   {
>     >>>       const struct cm_config *cm_default_cfg =
>     cm_get_default_config();
>     >>> @@ -82,6 +152,9 @@ void board_init_f(ulong dummy)
>     >>>           writel(SYSMGR_ECC_OCRAM_DERR  | SYSMGR_ECC_OCRAM_EN,
>     >>>                  &sysmgr_regs->eccgrp_ocram);
>     >>>   +    if (!socfpga_is_booting_from_fpga())
>     >>> +        spl_init_reboot_config();
>     >>> +
>     >>>       memset(__bss_start, 0, __bss_end - __bss_start);
>     >>>         socfpga_sdram_remap_zero();
>     >>>
>     >> Can't we use the library CRC32 function instead ?
>     >
>     > No, unfortunately, it's bit-reversed. Plus it uses a table, which
>     > increases the SPL binary by more than 2 KByte.
> 
>     Are you sure ? The uImage code also uses crc32, so I suspect that crc32
>     stuff is already in SPL. And the bit operation can probably be easily
>     done. I might be wrong ...
> 
> 
> I wrote that as a result of testing it. The binary grew by 2k+. I'll
> have to check the uimage crc.

That's probably a good idea.

> Bit reversing can be done, yes. I tested that too. It's a rarther small
> function that could be added to some lib code (if it doesn't already
> exist, I haven't checked).

If we can reuse the CRC code, that'd be awesome.

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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